Jackson Jambalaya

You could cut the number of counties in half and save a metric ton of money. That also would cut the number of school districts without cutting a single teacher.

Cut it all. Without functioning roads, bridges, and airports, I don’t have to look at y’all anymore. Will be great.

In FL and TX, income tax is replaced with property tax increases, which is shockingly high, to the point that property owners regularly hire property value appeals specialists to reduce the inflated appraised basis valuations that underlie the amount of tax due. This whole appeals process is itself slow and expensive. Sales taxes, including grocery tax may be a better, more fair and atleast partly voluntary replacement.

The Covid-19 Scamdemic gave us a very clear picture of which government employees are truly essential and who is non-essential. If you were able to work from home, then your job can be privatized and outsourced. If you had to put on a hard hat and safety harness, or a gun belt and Kevlar vest, and go outside while the pearl clutches watched social media all day, you are essential and should be secured in your job. Everyone else is fat that society can survive without or be privatized. That goes for public teachers and the government bureaucracy that “supports” them.

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Has that ever happened in our state history?? Hard sake bud.

@9:10 I have travelled many roads around the world that are 100% privatized with tolls and private traffic patrols. They work just fine. If the government relaxed regulations and allowed real competition then the competitive marketplace can easily provide transportation solutions such as cheaper airfare. I have seen the effect with my own eyes how the cost of airfare dropped significantly the last time the gov relaxed regulations on airlines. Prices increased and services decreased after 9/11 when regulations were increased.

I support the tax cuts. We pay way too many taxes now. They are everywhere and in everything we do.

RINOs falling for foreign actors selling schlock, from the Aussie toll road scheme years back to now. Yeah, bring in tons of tax exempt foreign companies, cut income taxes for them and their rich emigre foreign friends, and pretend we have the economic means to fund our state. Lies. Lobbyist lies.

And meanwhile the middle class will still see us getting the tax bill-on property, much to the delight of Boards of Supervisors who authorize crooked and degenerate cops to be hire. And with the blue collars getting even more tax breaks of chump change proportion to convince them they are getting rich. How about we start a STATE earned income tax credit where Billy Bob, who is paying NO FIT already, gets a fake refund? Of state taxes he doesn't pay.

Magic math, from RINO LiberaLtarians who missed the lessons of this election.
Everywhere there is no SIT, the makeup on taxes hurts the middle class. Who awoke this year and says NO MORE BS.

People like Bill Crawford love big government and simply cannot imagine the State having to make do with less tax money. The people can tighten their belts and be forced to live with a leaner budget, but heaven forbid the government having to do so.

This is still Mississippi and it's still about WHO as it has always been. WHO will be most adversely affected? WHO benefits or is hurt least/most from cuts/reduced government? That will determine WHAT cuts are to be made. Some cuts benefit/hurt some people more than others. That's what has to be determined. After that, it's cut and dried.

The monster must be fed one way or another.

Collapsing bridges and a retirement plan 45% under water. Idiots. Cut the stupid spending before you cut taxes.

Let’s give all of our money to the government and the government will give us back what they think we need. Government always knows what’s best for us.

Bill Crawford isn’t a conservative. He’s a RINO.

Aren’t roads and paid for with gas tax and car tags. Airports are paid for with tax on airline tickets.

Harkins just wants more of your tax dollar. He can’t get any accomplished with the airport and did an end-around the state’s voters on the flag vote. This guy can’t do anything that actually improves Mississippi and thinks the outdated tax code is working just fine.

If this isn't written by a bot/AI system, then they must still be drunk from that Ole Miss win.

I see plenty of needs as I travel around the state. These needs should be met, and it will require money. I would say one of the most glaring needs is more, and better roads.

I thought casinos were going to make all of Mississippi’s wildest dreams come true in regards to taxes. Is that not still a thing, or was that just said while trying to sell them to the public. Seems not much has happened.

I always like name calling (RHINO). Fiscal conservatism had been a hallmark of the Republican party policies throughout the 60’s 70’s 80’s and then things started to change.

And not just the “new” name calling as a way of dissociation, but tax cutting and spending.

Now nobody is responsible about spending, but absolving oneself of responsibility and blaming others is a currently potent strategy. But the spending increases.

There are two parties, the tax and spend liberals, and the cut-tax and spend MAGAs. Both will lead to economic ruin, just as it would work in your family situation.

Not one $ of tax cuts until our state parks are 100%. Make Mississippi Beautiful Again!

No, it doesn't. We can cut the monster down to size.

I’m for cutting income taxes (read “a tax on working”) and sales taxes. But cutting those means taxes decrease and Government takes less money from us. It’s not a tax cut to take less from one or two sources and more from other sources so Government has just as much or more cash than it had pre-cut.

And that’s what’s going to happen exactly. Lefties or “conservatives,” blue or red, R or D, the disingenuous likes of Delbert and Tater and Jason and the entire black caucus, we should never trust them to do what’s best for us and not for them.