Comments for School Board now eyeing two new taxes at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.theind.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:15:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18876 Never going to happen. Period. End of story. All the best, Soop - Soop. Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:47:42 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18838 If Conrad Comeaux would appraise the vacant land of the political elite/connected for the true value, there would be a surplus OF funds. But, of course the elected officials would piss that away also. You see, they love to increase your taxes! It is in their DNA. If these guys had to make it in the real world (not gov't jobs or elected positions) MOST would FAIL!!!!! VOTE NO! BECAUSE YOU KNOW ALL THE PEOPLE ON GOV'T PAYROLL WILL VOTE YES! OR IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE PEOPLE WHO BUILD NEW SCHOOLS THAT LEAK HAPPY, VOTE YES!!!!!!! - the original northsidian Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:24:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18834 The public money trough has run dry? Well then let's just get rid of public schools all together. Shut them all down! If you can't afford private school then you should be cleaning my bathroom right? You don't need to know how to read to do that. Next we can shut down the police department and hire our own private security. Just think of all the jobs it would create! We could buy our own fire equipment and have people on staff right at our house to put out any fires. Prisons cost alot of money, let's just gas the people in the prisons and shut em down. Someone does you wrong, just choot em, or well... have your private security take on their private security in a shoot out. We can sell all the roads and let the owners put up their own tolls at their own price to maintain them. You know what, anything that has the word public in it, let's just abolish it because those things cost money and I'm sick of paying 20% of my income to live in the best country in the world. Yea, I want to live in a shitty mad max world where capitalists live in secured gold lined compounds while the other 95% of the population live on a scorched, polluted earth. - Anarchist Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:56:49 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18832 People, do not forget the LPSB is collecting record amounts of money via property taxes on homes whose value just goes up and up and up and sales taxes that break records every year. When was the last time you heard of any Lafayette parish agency refusing the increase. In actuality, the school board is collecting more money each year. That board needs to cut out the double dipping by bus drivers & school personnel - when you retire, you retire. period. And that board needs to cut out PreK3 if they cant fund it with what they have and they should be charging for it anyway. There already is an early intervention program. AND CUT OUT THE SPECIALTY SCHOOLS - THAT'S WHAT COLLEGE & TRADE SCHOOLS ARE FOR. So, if you do all that, there is no need for new schools, just use the ones that have been closed for bad performance. - BoFred Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:43:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18816 The public money trough has run dry. Do not these leaders even see that? Locally and nationally, people have tired of the history of tax money being mis-spent or used to fund ineffective programs that, once in place, never go away. In these lean times, this will be a rough sell although the message "but it's for the kids" will be used to lay guilt on the voters. - RLA Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:31:37 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18813 23 mills + 2 mills + 5.4 mills = 30.4 mills 'The 23 mills (which may fluctuate over time.)' The Master Plan is $1.1 billion. 23 mils (estimated) will only service the debt on the first half of the project. What about phase 2? How much more tax for this phase? That doesn't include the 2 mills tax or the 5.4 mills tax. Not to mention, the $1.1 billion price tag is a crock. Use the real numbers in the facilities options section of The Master Plan, not the BS financial summary numbers the tax is based on. Explain the huge differences between the two sections to my satisfaction, and then I might be okay with the tax. - Dudley E. LaBauve, III Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:17:20 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18810 I sure wish I could put Jindal running the LPSB!!! Lafayette parish is closing schools @ record rates & the school board thinks it deserves more tax money to blow??? School starts @ the beginning of Aug in an attempt to avoid "brain drain" because some kids are too lazy to study during break. The result, NOT BETTER GRADES THAT'S FOR SURE!!! So give me back my 2 wks in the summer and FORGET ANY NEW TAXES!!! Quit wasting money, and live on a budget like I do. I refuse to lose my house because LPSB can't come up with a plan to educate kids. Cut out that "come back" program that allows bus drivers & teachers to double dip! - NO Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:43:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/8505-school-board-now-eyeing-two-new-taxes#comment-18809 No funding for mediocrity aka public schools. - Box Tox Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:35:31 +0100