Rolling taxes a bad public policy
In last Tuesday’s Advocate, Belinda Creel Davis said that the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge “will target for defeat any Republicans in elected office who vote to roll forward millages.” That statement is untrue.
The parish Republican Party took a strong position against the roll forward of property taxes because it is a tax increase without a vote of the people.
Regarding Operation Stop the Roll Forward, the parish Republican Party was successful in stopping $2.1 million in new property taxes this year, or $8.4 million over four years.
The Republican Party continues to maintain that rolling forward property taxes without a vote of people is bad public policy. All tax increases should be submitted to the voters for their approval. We intend to propose a state constitutional amendment that will stop the practice of rolling forward property taxes without a vote of the people.
Woody Jenkins, chairman
Republican Party of East Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge
09/12/2012 at 6:25 am |
Great idea. Probably won’t stop the gobvernment juggernaut though.
Collapse is inevitible.
09/17/2012 at 3:08 am |
When you don’t allow a “roll forward,” you are effectively ignoring any growth of population or taxable property within the past year. Local governments are mandated to protect those properties and serve that population.
Of course the same folks opposing “roll forward” are the same ones hollering longest and loudest when they have to dodge a pothole, the dogcatcher doesn’t get to their house fast enough or the trash truck doesn’t pick up their leaf rakings fast enough to suit them. It’s just more of that “conservative BS” from those who want all the benefits of government but don’t want to pay for it.
They are the same jerks who voted for “the only fair tax” but now never bother to total up how much they’ve paid since it isn’t deductable on their IRS 1040. Or bitch about the condition of the highways when fuel taxes haven’t been raised in decades to pay for repairs and improvements and they are now driving a car that gets twice the mileage as the one they drove when the fuel tax rate rates were set. No doubt they are 95+% of the ‘publican persuasion.