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this is a discussion within the College Community Forum; Louisiana Dem Gov. Edwards warns: Agree to proposed tax hikes or LSU football could be sacked Louisiana Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards is suggesting the legendary Louisiana State University football team’s 2016 season might be canceled -- and other doomsday ...
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He nailed the coffin closed on his re-election!
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Originally Posted by WhoDat!656
I think you over-estimate the IQ of the average Louisiana (and American) voter.
I'd say well over half of voters are OK with raising taxes, as long as politicians claim its only a tax increase on the rich. The problem is that tax payers are to ignorant to know that the 2nd easiest way to raise taxes on the POOR is to claim that its a tax increase on the RICH. |
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New Haven does that to Yale all the time.
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02-17-2016, 12:12 PM | #7 |
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Here are a few numbers. I graduated from McNeese back in 1974. At that time tuition cost was ridiculously low; less than $500 a year.
Today one year of McNeese and LU in-state, full time tuition and fees runs about $7,000. My youngest daughter recently graduated from Miami University (Ohio not Florida). Today one year of in-state, full time tuition and fees runs about $15,000. Louisiana State colleges and universities have an enrollment of over 150,000. Raising tuition by $3,000 per year would generate almost $500 million a year, about half of LA's budget shortfall. Bet the gov doesn't want to suggest that option to raise revenue. An even bigger problem is that many people enrolled in colleges today are there to get the education that they should have received in high school. That is the real fleecing of America. |
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02-19-2016, 10:19 PM | #8 |
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My dad and I had a good laugh about this over the phone the other day. There is ZERO chance anything happens to LSU football. A self sustaining program that has donated millions into the university. LSU, like all major Programs, is almost an economy unto itself. Huge revenue. LSU receives zero state funding. To bring it up is stupid on two levels.
One, you don't create revenue by cutting revenue. And two, you don't single out something as big as the state's flagship university to try to make a point. It makes you look like a worm. We all know what you're doing, John, and it isn't fooling anyone with a brain. But of course, there were a lot of brain dead people who voted for him. That's America for you. |
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, the NFL would fine and suspend me.
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02-20-2016, 06:02 AM | #9 |
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At first I was thinking, "Why would anyone care if they cancelled Yale football?", but they got quite a legacy! 27 National Championships, 885 wins, third only to University of Michigan and Notre Dame ... ddaayyuumm! Go Bulldogs!
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