re: These melts are hilarious but the fact remains: LA has no future

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That measure factors in excise taxes the one I linked did not. La did increase the cigarette excise tax under JBE, which only taxes people who smoke .under JBE we went from having 2nd lowest cigarette tax to now we are around 30th, so if u smoke ur tax burden did go up more than mine did

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Taxes are taxes. It's still accurate that we are a middle of the road taxed state that's ranked 49th or 50th in most quality of life measures. What are we getting for our money?

I’ll admit it. I’m taking this election hard. I just love my state. I love being near family and getting to experience LSU sports anytime I want. I love the food and culture. I just find it sad that the people here don’t want to be better or change things. Most posts of people who voted for JBE are saying the state was screwed before had got elected and it’s always going to be screwed and they are just accepting of letting him have 4 more years of failure rather than trying something new. I always think the “i’m moving” talk is hyperbole even though we’ve lost 75,000 people during this administration...but i get it. I’m too old and established to pick up and leave now but I can’t with a good conscience recommend anyone under 50 stay and “make it better”. Get the hell out while you can.

No I don’t smoke never have and never will , why should I subsidize big tobacco and make there product more profitable given the significant Increase in health care cost smokers impose on the economy, smoking is a voluntary tax that smokers choose to pay by virtue of smoking , it has no relevance on my tax burden or majority of LA folks who do not smoke , JBE can raise cigarette taxes to infinity and will not bother me one bit.


I am happily married and north of 50 but if I were single and met a woman who smoked, she could have a golden arse and I would tell her get lost , do not even want to sit next to u , that is how much I do not like being around Smokers

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I love the food and culture.

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I just find it sad that the people here don’t want to be better or change things.

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have you ever thought that "the culture" is why people don't want to change things?

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rather than trying something new

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i don't think Rispone is bringing anything new to the table

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JBE can raise cigarette taxes to infinity and will not bother me one bit

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And when more people stop smoking they'll make up that revenue somewhere else

The Medicaid expansion was part of Obama care , do we agree on this basic fact?

Trump has been trying to undue most of Obama care and I think by not challenging a state case against it let some parts get effectively neutered

however he has never tried to undue the portions that relate to Medicaid expansion best I can tell

No health care cost savings will outpace the lost revenue

It's also worth mentioning healthcare will boom all over the country. This is not unique or special to Louisiana.

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there is a large overlap with the "there is nothing to do" argument people bring up about not living in cities (this is not LA-centric), which often comes down to finding socially-acceptable ways to get trashed

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I applaud you for noting this. It's sad that the continuing urban/rural divide is actually tied to hedonism. It's not sustainable. Younger people are going to have to gain a measure of self-discipline and retake rural areas and raise families.

You could say the Democrats have made this a tough row to hoe by destroying public schools, but they've destroyed urban public schools, too.

And the fact that your state has 30 percent of its population on Medicaid is a very sobering stat (no pun intended). Anyone who thinks this is sustainable has their judgment clouded by the aforementioned hedonistic lifestyles they tend to embrace.

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No health care cost savings will outpace the lost revenue

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That's cute that you think we'd just shrink government revenue if expenses decreased