Jackson Jambalaya

About 42% of the money for state funded services came from the federal government last year. ($13.2 billion). $89 million was earmarked for MDOT money and infrastructure repair $1.2 billion. Our members in Congress got us another $220 million in grants. The US 82 Greenville by-pass alone was $216 million.

So, someone needs to ask "If we don't get federal dollars and there's no state tax, how will we make any infrastructure repairs or pay the current salaries of government workers at the same level (local fire and law enforcement salaries are supplemented by federal dollars and have been for decades or if that's where the money for the Capitol police and their equipment originated.)

37% of the budgets for state colleges and universities come from federal and state taxes not counting grants for students. Lots of our skilled labor were trained by the federal Pell grant...the Junior College system depends on those grants.

Now, look at local taxes and local "improvements" in your county and town budgets and the local salaries if you are brave enough.

I wonder if some of you will understand why things start losing the things you took for granted.

Power to, from, of, and by the people.

Huge error in the first third of this diatribe by Crawford: Spending may be called "mandatory" but that does make it so. Going forward, every tax dollar should be considered "discretionary"....because it is in fact.

We definitely need more billionaires and a few trillionaires more than spending taxpayer funds on Social Security, Medicare, education, Medicaid, etc. Corporate welfare is much more important than the welfare of the citizens.

But hey, this is what America wanted.

That there would be hard work thinking about all this stuff you are saying. Too many numbers and a lot of fine print. Who do you think has time for that in the 'Sip?

It would be smarter to elect Shad governor. He spent $2 million and found $350 million.

Let him spend about $10 million with the consultants he knows and he'll come up with enough couch change to do a buyout of Commiefornia!

The rich will keep more of their money. The poor will suffer greatly. It's biblical.

It is inevitable they will run out of our money to spend! I’m sick of it!

Correct @11:51.
God Chose some to rule and chose some to serve the rulers. I am grateful to have been born into a family of Chosen rulers.

If the people could open up some of the slush funds the politicians like to keep secret it would help. Just the one account that holds the income tax that is not returned because of questionable SS numbers would make a big difference. We used to be able to learn how much was in that account but it got so large that the politicians hid it from us.

I counted 21 One-Sentence paragraphs. Obviously, AI generated! That's an insult to all who ever took English Comp.

Taxes??? We just need the "innovative" private sector to take over Gubmint, right???

Interesting reveal out West where the LA Fire Department had half their trucks in the shop and new firetrucks now cost 2 million and take 4 or more years to deliver. Parts are in short supply. Why? Private equity bought up all the fire apparatus companies. No competition, cartel type high prices, less productivity. And that's happened in our Emergency Rooms. But, no mind. The Hollywood elite literally has been having 200k private fire hydrants built outside their mansions. And, things were great until the whole town burned down and the precious private hydrant ran dry and there were not enough trucks.

So, when a healthcare CEO gets shot or a celebrity's home is on fire, private equity is in St Bart as the disaster unfolds. Naturally, the RINO MS GOP wants a billionaire for Gov so we can be like Cali. Private profit, public loss, and Uncle Sam GubMint Welfare for Farm Corporations, pumps for your Fed made swamp fields, and subsidized flood insurance.

Boy, 'Murica is getting better every day ain't it? Only now it's little towns in Kansas that can't afford a fire truck, and fires are killing folks quicker. 8X faster. So, who needs fire trucks when we have crypto trillionaires and PE on the job!?!?

You will never...EVER...see career politicians pushing for deep tax cuts and reduction of government. It takes a non-politician running and being elected president to make bold moves that may seem shocking to statists, but for the people trying to make ends meet with prices soaring....it's a breath of fresh air. And frankly, it's precisely what the people voted for in the recent election.

By rich, do you mean the people who actually earn the money and want to keep as much of their money as possible? Considering the recent economy and inflation, it makes sense to want to keep as much of your income as possible.

Doing away with Federal Department of Education, as Trump has proposed, would be a significant financial savings.

One thing Mississippi proves above all else: Just how grate a state can be without all that fancy edumacation.

Privatize the Post Office. I got an invitation in the mail yesterday for an event in December. It was post marked November 4.

1:45 NO, that's not rich. The rich don't have to just WANT to keep their money. They pay people who make sure they keep their money.

Trump will bankrupt America.

You are ranting about half of the problem with the fires in California. If they had simply followed the old practices of burning the dead under brush of wooded areas, the fire danger would have more than likely been avoided.

@2:33pm wins. Just look at most of these comments.

The national debt is over 33 trillion dollars, but Trump is going to bankrupt America?? Get out of here with your ignorance.

All this debate and nobody points out that Kingfish posted the original article three times in a row?