Posted on 07/03/2021 5:05:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Louisiana Legislature voted overwhelmingly Thursday to move approximately $300 million annually from a fund that pays for higher education and health care to a fund that pays for large transportation projects.
Supporters have said the spending will not only improve the state’s infrastructure system, but that it will also create construction jobs. Critics are concerned the proposal would exacerbate an already expected budget deficit in July 2025 affecting state universities, hospitals and other health care programs.
Gov. John Bel Edwards needs to sign the legislation for it to become law. Edwards hasn’t decided if he approves of the bill because he is concerned about the financial shortfall it could create.
“I’m not prepared yet to say whether we can support it,” he said at a news conference Thursday evening after the legislative session ended.
Starting in July 2023, House Bill 514, sponsored by House Speaker Pro Tempore Tanner Magee, R-Houma, would move 30 percent of money generated by the state’s vehicle sales tax from what’s called the state general fund to a transportation fund. Then in 2025, 60 percent of the vehicle sales tax revenue would be taken out of the state general fund and put toward transportation projects.
That state general fund supports a variety of state government functions, but the largest slices go to education, health care services and the prison system. Under Magee’s bill, instead of those services, the majority of the vehicle sales tax — estimated to be about $300 million by the 2025-2026 budget cycle — would go to transportation projects.
(Excerpt) Read more at lailluminator.com ...
How might Louisiana fix road, bridge problems? This bill is believed to be the solution (6/3/21)
Louisiana getting $216M to connect New Orleans to Lafayette, other transportation projects (4/19/21)
Defund the universities.
PING!
Wouldn’t it be easier to simply charge everyone 10 cents a mile to drive? Wouldn’t be a tax, since no one would be ‘forced’ to pay it - they could always take the bus, or Uber.
Don’t laugh, this is coming if our side sits home and whines about RINOs, thereby letting the Democrats seize even more power.
A condo collapse can do wonders.
I wonder how bad the bridges have gotten.
Please. Liz Cheney is now a member of Pelosi’s sham Jan. 6 investigative committee, taking one of the spots reserved for DEMOCRATS. Are you telling me that if you were in Wyoming and she was the GOP candidate in 22 that you would hold your nose against that epic stench and vote for her??????????
For most GOP candidates, I can see voting for them, but with Liz Cheney, I would rather drown a bunch of cats.
“For most GOP candidates, I can see voting for them, but with Liz Cheney, I would rather drown a bunch of cats.”
LOL, you pick the ONE EXCEPTION. Liz is one of a kind and certainly wasn’t that bad prior to her last election, so like most in Wyoming, I would have voted for her. In fact, she supported most of Trump’s policies. But she is a very sick woman, in need of professional help - and she won’t get that without first being out of Congress, so NO, one exception.
But I would vote for Murkowski or Collins over a Democrat in a Senate that’s one vote away from killing the filibuster. Many here wouldn’t...they think that One Party Democrat rule (for many decades) is somehow better for the country. Thankfully Trump is as dumb as these people, which is why he’s still fighting to take back the country...rather than simply vanishing like a normal person would do after being screwed out of an election.
I suppose the replacement has reached its' expiration date by now.
Defund the universities.
The Chinese Communist Party will have to pay more ,LOL
There are other exceptions with me, such as Kinzinger, but like I said, I could see reaching for the lever for most of them, even Collins, who does show some sanity every now and then. Dunno about Murkowski; she seems to be all-around slime.
In the House, it’s usually not that much of a difference, given the number of people there and that it’s not usually so evenly split. But in the Senate, all the Dems have to do is get to the number they need to kill off the filibuster, and it’s GAME OVER for the country, as things stand today - everything we think of as American, starting with the Constitution, all of it, will literally be gone in 6 months.
Shumer is playing for keeps, and if it’s Murkowski helping to stop Shumer from destroying this country, she’ll get my vote, and so far, she’s been on our side.
In another universe, where the Democrats were an opposition party with different ideas for the country, but still respecting its foundation, at least to the point of being against voter fraud (even when it benefits them) and supporting the Constitution...I might look at Murkowski differently - but today, if it’s her or a Democrat, it’s not a tough call for me.
As an aside, Schumer seems to have forgotten that LEFTISTS HATE JEWS!!! He should be prepared to square his shoulders and march into the camps alongside us, should these people succeed.
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