re: Some takeaways from Q&A with Eddie Rispone for Governor

I don’t understand the reference to crime.

What school system in Louisiana have improved relatively as much as Orleans over the last 15 years?

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I wouldn’t say Orleans parish charter schools have been a success, a certainly not one for other cities to emulate. The switch over is now 10 plus years in the making and one needs only to look at the crime rate to see how that system has failed.

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You live in NOLA?

Most of the people involved in a life of crime are school dropouts. I don't care how good the school is, if you don't attend it, it's not going to help you.

The crime rate in NOLA is fueled by the drug trade and by groups having "beefs" with each other and not being able to deal with it in a normal, human way.

10,000 people in NOLA are probably responsible for, and victims of, 95% of the crime.

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Give ALL the state money to families to use where they please and the money will start in the classroom and not filter through layers of burecracy before it gets to the classroom.

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You know what else would do that?

Get rid of homestead exemption, allow local school property taxes to rise, and get rid (or dramatically, dramatically) reduce state funding. Let the locals fund their own schools.

Then, dramatically reduce the impact of the state department of education. Again, outside of some very basic standards, let the locals decide how to run their schools.

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public operators would be free to operate more like charters.

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I took your post to be suggesting that public schools no longer be able to operate. If that was wrong, then my apologies.

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I'd remove the credit and let the locals decide if they want to tax it or not, and how they tax it.

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Eliminate it and the state taxes on business.

The situation is too complicated.

For instance in EBR a company would have to apply to the school board, BREC, the C-P, the Library Board and etc. for an exemption. Too many places to shop.

Cut to the chase. Eliminate the program and lower corporate taxes of all sorts to line up with Texas.

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I understand the gnashing of teeth over Rispone's stance on weed in this thread

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To me, it's his thought of "I don't know anything about it, but I'm against it."

We need clear, open thinkers in the high positions of this state. It would be one think if he thought long about it, studied it, and decided to not support it, and could provide reasons why he doesn't support it.

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For instance in EBR a company would have to apply to the school board, BREC, the C-P, the Library Board and etc. for an exemption. Too many places to shop.

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Cut to the chase. Eliminate the program and lower corporate taxes of all sorts to line up with Texas.

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Ironically, for property taxes, pretty much every collecting government entity is allowed to choose their own rules and methods. Some of them bind together for the ease of collecting payment.

When we lived in Katy, I paid three different property tax bills a year, and probably 7 or 8 different agencies that had different exemptions rules and levels. The only thing that was "standard" was the appraised value.

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In practice far too many local governments are run by thundering morons

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And guess which two parishes have completely mucked up ITEP since the Turtle threw all this back in the local's lap? Give you a hint, both parishes have dimwitted, racist mayors and city councils that only want to know how they personally can profit the most. The folks to our West are certainly enjoying all these multi-billion dollar projects landing in their laps because we have a governor that doesn't care about growth because he's confident he can just merrily keep increasing taxes on the poor businesses that are already here.

So, by all means, take no property tax revenue at all instead of having a large sum of revenue a few years down the road (and immediately if you consider all the local spending when a project kicks off). This is the kind of short-sighted idiocy that has dogged our state for so many years and keeps us stuck in the basement on good places to do business and live.

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JBE has got to go. Period

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This is the only thing that really matters. Period.

And for those saying that he has no chance, we have a US Senator that no one knew when he first announced for political office either.

Well opponent in a runoff with JBE gets my vote but Abraham has a very steep hill to climb. He too is an unknown but unlike Rispone he lacks the $$$ to make himself known.

I am a little skeptical of doctors in administrative positions too. They just don't have much administrative experience much like JBE.