[MarignyBywater] piece of pie

[Ava de Montagne]

well, since 2005 there are so much fewer tax payers so the rest of us
have to make up for it if we want the same services as before.
  Or else stop spending so much money.  Can you imagine how much it
  costs daily to operate the massive prison complex by Tulane and Broad?
   Other states don't allow any person to be jailed on misdemeanor. In
  Orleans at any point in time the majority of people being held in
  Orleans Parish Prison, is held on misdemeanors but unable to pay the
  outrageous bond amounts.  

Or ask why the District Attorney's office needs three times as many
lawyers as the Public Defenders has.

Which way are we going to shrink the pie?  



On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:10:50 -0700 (PDT), "Scott Graves"
<ingramhaus at yahoo.com> said:
> For forty years virtually illiterate children have graduated from New
> Orleans' schools, in recent years, criminal activity is completely out of
> control in our city streets and stories of rampant political misconduct
> in city and state government appear in the newspaper frequently. 
> Considering the value we citizens receive, property tax has been nothing
> but legalized theft.
>  
> Since 2005, property values have dropped while assessed property values
> have skyrocketed.  And the mayor wants more?   The citizens of New
> Orleans are being looted and we should treat those responsible as the
> hoodlums they are.
>  
> Meanwhile, New Orleans property owners appear trapped, unable to escape.  
> 
> --- On Tue, 10/28/08, b588 at bellsouth.net <b588 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> RE:  Nagin's proposed property tax increase
> 
> 
> 
> This is another stupid idea from the idiot.
> The economy in New Orleans and elsewhere dictates that this 
> should not be done.
> Instead I suggest that Nagin fire his do nothing planner, Ed
> Blakely and the rest of his incompetent staff.  
> Why give the Nagin administration more money to waste?
> G. Brown_______________________________________________
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