La Governor: I am voting for whomever offers a plan to fix/build roads and bridges.

such an epiphany

I agree.

JBE keeps vetoing maple ave in Eunice, and it's a state road that's in beyond shitty shape. It's the second main road in this town and it looks like a third world country road.

The Mayor of Eunice keeps getting it on the ballot and JBE has veto'd is 4 years in a row. It's an abomination .

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It’s because people know that they won’t see any improvements because the government will squander the money

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It’s because people know that they won’t see any improvements because the government will squander the money

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It’s because people know that they won’t see any improvements because the government will squander the money

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It’s because people know that they won’t see any improvements because the government will squander the money

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There’s nothing remotely attractive about this state if you’re an out of state business unless we are offering massive subsidies or tax credits

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If we had an efficient government like Texas, people would be more willing to consider tax hikes

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Then stop voting for (in you case) the same boudin eating fools who show up ever wo years and ask you to vote for them solely on the fact they are "conservative" and they have a nice looking family on the front of their brochures.

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It’s because people know that they won’t see any improvements because the government will squander the money

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That's the convenient excuse. Just admit it, you like to bitch about the transportation infrastructure, but if you had to pay an extra cent for it, then it's highway robbery. Plus the way everything is set up in BR, the governor gets to determine how the highway funds are distributed.

I don’t vote for those types, not sure where you are getting that from

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It’s not because people don’t want to pay for it

It’s because people know that they won’t see any improvements because the government will squander the money

If we had an efficient government like Texas, people would be more willing to consider tax hikes

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And like everywhere else in the country, people can, and have been paying for it, but legislatures across the country use the largesse for pet projects, graft, and outright fraud. Also, it doesn't matter one bit if the people vote in a temporary tax increase, for a specific purpose, with a hard sunset on the tax. By the time the sunset comes, the people have forgotten it, so the politicians scuttle the sunset, and often propose additional taxes for the next manufactured crisis.

Infrastructure is abysmal in this state. It’s at 1975 levels. So I understand your pragmatism over ideology.

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Our politicians have a spending problem.

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They are politicians

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There is plenty of room in the budget

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You threw that assertion down now defend it specifically or else you are like all the other s who speak in platitudes but can't show shite.

Let me guess..... you are going to start with the Medicaid expansion and nothing else....that's too easy


I'm not for higher taxes, but I don't think we allocate the taxes we get correctly mainly because of statutes passed and stupid Constitutional Amendment that locks in funding .