re: Vote NO on Thrive Theft UPDATE: All 3 Fail. NO wins!

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You can’t even interpret your own graphic accurately. You just make up shite that’s not supported by your graphic.

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That’s rich coming from you.

Some of you refuse to believe the facts even when presented right in front of your face.

Just voted no to all 3 ten minutes ago.

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What’s wrong about it?

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He won’t answer that.

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My lib friends are voting no because they say it's a "St George bailout". I'm voting no because frick Baton Rouge. So I guess we're all aligned here so there's that.

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It mostly means that the average voter hasn’t the faintest fricking idea as to what they are talking about and just do what they’re told

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It mostly means that the average voter hasn’t the faintest fricking idea as to what they are talking about

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This is my biggest problem with this plan. Why not pass a millage for the general fund, one for library, another for mosquito abatement and another for the COA? And I feel like there hasn’t been a lot of explanation on the details. I had to do a lot of digging to see that the library tax comes up next year and the other two come up the year after.

I get the reason for it and I’m not against it. I just don’t like the way it’s convoluted and being pushed at the last minute.

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This is my biggest problem with this plan. Why not pass a millage for the general fund, one for library, another for mosquito abatement and another for the COA? And I feel like there hasn’t been a lot of explanation on the details. I had to do a lot of digging to see that the library tax comes up next year and the other two come up the year after.

I get the reason for it and I’m not against it. I just don’t like the way it’s convoluted and being pushed at the last minute.

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It's being done this way because the parish budget is about to be in a tailspin and this is a last ditch effort to prevent a plane crash. Thrive was the best possible option that can be accomplished at this point in time. If Thrive fails it is bad news for the whole parish. I think Sid will do his best to crash land the plane if Thrive fails, but make no mistake - the plane is crashing if it fails.

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If Thrive fails it is bad news for the whole parish

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If Thrive fails, and I think it will, the Library will still have a huge surplus, MARC will still have a big surplus and the COA will have more money than they need.

Taxes will be the same for a short while until the Library tax expires. Then the Library will lose their funding unless they quickly call for another tax election.

Meanwhile, storm water plans won’t progress, the DA will be short of staff and EBR Parish will be hurting.

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How strange then that all the other mayors and council members support it. Seems y'all elected a bunch of simps for BR city. Or maybe the mayors and council understand the parish-wide financial implications better than you do

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Good for them.
I don’t really give a shite what they think, or what political party they are.
I’m tired of my money being used to fund a city I don’t live in. I can read and I can see what they are saying they will use the money for and I’m not ok with it (the debt pay down portion, I’m ok with the stormwater and street projects)

The problem with these proposals is that they are promises to use the money how they are saying right now. But the reality is the money is just going into a fund that can be used however the hell they want.
Had they said in the actual proposal on the ballot exactly how the money would be used, which they could have done but didn’t, then maybe I’d be more willing to vote yes on this and help out BR. I don’t want BR to fail or be a shithole. I also don’t want the people that live outside of it to have to pay for their services on top of paying for or own. Not a single cent of parish money should ever be used on the Baton Rouge police department and a good portion of this bailout is for them.

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This is my biggest problem with this plan. Why not pass a millage for the general fund, one for library, another for mosquito abatement and another for the COA? And I feel like there hasn’t been a lot of explanation on the details. I had to do a lot of digging to see that the library tax comes up next year and the other two come up the year after.

I get the reason for it and I’m not against it. I just don’t like the way it’s convoluted and being pushed at the last minute.

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It's being done this way because the parish budget is about to be in a tailspin and this is a last ditch effort to prevent a plane crash. Thrive was the best possible option that can be accomplished at this point in time. If Thrive fails it is bad news for the whole parish. I think Sid will do his best to crash land the plane if Thrive fails, but make no mistake - the plane is crashing if it fails.

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The library tax is coming up and could have been split into a general fund millage and a library millage. That’s where most of the money is coming from anyway. The mosquito and COA tax comes up next year, but that could have been an early renewal and split out the general fund. This feels like they are trying to trick people into voting for money for the general fund by wrapping it in a library fund.

Again, not against it. I just don’t like the way it’s being presented.

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I’m tired of my money being used to fund a city I don’t live in.

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Your hatred of a city adjoined to where you live is irrational. Duly noted.