Volvagia

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Do you think it's Mark in the transportation office using a pencil and guessing?

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I’m sure a dart board is involved

I’m not blaming them.

I’m literally asking what I said: who writes checks anymore.

That doesn’t refute my point.

At all.

Your property taxes don’t have to be a handwritten check. Not the IRS part.

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In relation to what size power plant you would need to build to serve the load, you use peak.

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Except I wasn’t designing a power plant. I was giving context of how mind bogglingly big that number was. Giving a plant size which is sized for worst case scenarios plus a safety margin doesn’t do that as well as point out its orders of magnitude more than what it takes to power a medium sized city.


But if you want to focus on generation, fine:

The entire state of Louisiana has around 25000 MW of generation capacity at the moment.

They want to add 10000 and focus it on this one facility.

I never understood the fascination with her. She’s indisputably hot.

But not drop dead hot to build entire career around ala Carmen Electra.

Neither of which are covered by TOPS, and have nothing to do with state subsidies.

Even the highest levels of TOPS don’t give enough to pay for both tuition and fees. There is nothing left for room and board.

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Does an incoming freshman pay nearly $35k vs $6.8k compared to pre-TOPS?

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What does that have to do with seeing higher rates of increases at places without TOPS?

By that argument, you probably think cars are more expensive than 30 years ago because of something the Chinese did. And you think you didn’t lose value if your home is now worth 320k vs 300k 30 years ago.

:lol:

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TOPS is part of the cause of this astronomical increase.

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:lol: no it isn’t. For someone who says they care about the budget , and are quite vocal on this topic, you really are quite ignorant of Louisiana budgetary matters. Just what baws feelings are around a few beers.


LSU tuition is actually cheaper than many other state colleges nationally, and TOPS is the reason. Tuition increases rarely get approved because it’ll immediately be a burden on the state budget. It’s why LSU backdoors so much of their tuition through fees: because they don’t need the legislature to approve it and baseline TOPS doesn’t cover it.


It’s a complex topic but the deeper cause of the general increase of tuition is that many states have balanced budget amendments. But huge swaths of the budget are also protected, and state schools are one of a handful of elements that aren’t.

So they get a disproportionate amount of the cuts, compared to social programs. So the state funding needs to get replaced. This is a nationwide trend, not exclusively Louisiana.

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How dare someone suggests holding these babies accountable.

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How is losing the scholarship not holding them accountable? No one is crying about that.

They are crying about a bullshite policy that’ll throw 20k+ of debt on someone at a snap of a finger unless you fit an exclusion list a mile long and half of it vaguely put that will obviously be fairly applied because LA government is known for its fair and rational decision making.

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Why should the state subsidize someone's year of partying?

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TBF, this is disingenuous tripe.

While certainly there are those who frick off partying and massively underperform because of it.

But TOPS doesn’t subsidize a penny of it. It doesn’t even come CLOSE to covering 100% of cost of attendance even before stuff like books.

But for TOPS to be claimed as subsidizing partying it would have to at least cover for housing. Which it doesn’t. Not even on campus housing/dorm living. Especially not at the TOPS levels this bill targets. The higher levels that might get some spillover into funding that? Well that’s excempt from the policy anyway.

And just a little over 30 years since that bitch threw the diamond into the ocean.