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According to a story in today’s Baton Rouge paper, the LA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is looking to find additional revenues to make up for additional costs of insurance, etc.

Fees, as are being proposed by WL&F can be increased by a 2/3’s vote of the lege during the 2006 Regular Session. However, one of the fees is a new boat registration fee. If this fee raises more than the money necessary to actually administer the cost of boat registration then it would be considered a “tax” and cannot be considered during the 2006 Regular Session. If it doesn’t raise extra funds to help pay for the additional costs in the budget of the WL&F, then it is no help in balancing the budget.

Charging for shooting more deer seems more like a tax than a fee as there appears to be no correlation between the number of deer killed and the cost of enforcing the law. If there is additional cost incurred, then no extra revenue will be provided to pay the higher costs of insurance, etc. It is nothing more than an increase in taxes that is prohibited during the 2006 Regular Session.

It’s time to put a stop to tax increases in LA, much less ILLEGAL ones!

C.B.

Uncategorized CB 9:35 am

Perhaps it’s not clear to everyone, but a pattern is beginning to develop in New Orleans. Based on the story in today’s Daily Monopoly, it is clear that parades cause killings. There is only one thing to do. In order to reduce the murder rate in the city, we must immediately move to outlaw all parades.

C.B.

Uncategorized CB 9:54 am

If anyone is wondering why the recovery in LA is taking so long, these words from a Texan tell it all:

Congressman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas said: “The camera lens doesn’t do it justice.” But what came into focus for him, he said, was a disturbing sense of entitlement and a deficit of self-reliance. “I saw public officials who took very little responsibility (for failures in responding to the hurricane) and are looking for large checks from the federal government. . . . Where’s the plan? Where’s the accountability? What is the city doing? What is the state doing? Those able-bodied individuals under 65, what are they doing to help themselves?” Times Picayune, March 12, 2006

One can only wonder if Cong. Hensarling also knew at the time he made those statements, that Governor Blanco was proposing the largest operating budget in the history of LA that included pay raises for school teachers. Yet hundreds of thousands of Louisianians remain in exile in Texas and other states with no jobs to return to in LA and no place to live even if they have a job for which to return. It’s hard to explain to explain to those outside of the LA and especially citizens of LA living in other states, that a teacher pay raise is a higher priority than providing for the homeless, jobless, people still living in exile in the other states.

LA’s public officials need set better priorities for the existing dollars in LA and it is up to us citizens to demand it.

Pogo said it best. “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

C.B.

Uncategorized CB 12:11 pm