Governor election

[davidees]

Robert Foster
#mytruckmyrules

[Goose]

I think one of Bill Waller's strongest attributes is Leadership. Having served 20 years on the Miss Supreme Court, 10 of those as Chief Justice, and rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the Miss Nat'l Guard, tells me that he is a true leader and knows how to work with everyone. I think he will expect everyone around him to do their job in a competent and professional manner, and report the results back to him. As contrasted with Tate who my impression is, rules with an iron fist, and expects everyone to do exactly what he tells them to do.

Waller understands the importance of a modern, safe and efficient infrastructure system throughout the State, and the fact that it impacts every Mississippian in a multitude of ways. Our infrastructure system certainly effects our economic development capabilities, but it also effects education, healthcare, quality of life, and certainly public safety. He also understands that what we have got to do is to provide a long term stable funding mechanism for infrastructure, and the only real way to do that is thru the fuel tax, which is the quintessential user fee. Sure there are some other mechanisms that can be used to generate this revenue, but the bulk of it does and will continue to come from the fuel tax. Our fuel tax in Miss is $0.184 cents per gallon, and that was set in 1987, thus our revenue stream has pretty much been stagnant for the past 32 years. Waller has the balls to address this issue and adjust that tax to create the long term stable funding mechanism that is required.

As opposed to Tate, who crafted legislation during the special session last year to fund infrastructure for a 10 year period based on the lottery, sports betting, and internet sales/use tax. He says that he has put a billion dollars into infrastructure, but that is not really an accurate statement. He leaves out the fact that that is for a 10 year period and then everything but the internet sales/use tax sunsets. Also, that means he thinks it will average $100 million per year over 10 years, when the MEC recognized a need of a minimum of $375 Million per year.

So this is just my $.02 worth on the gov's race.......

[lilwhitelie]

Call me old fashion but anyone campaigning to legalize marijuana won’t get my vote. More negatives than positives and opens up a entire new box of problems. As for Tate...... I can see where he rubs many wrong but as far as a republican candidate he has the cash on his side so we will see if that and name recognition get him across the finish line against hood.

[lilwhitelie]

Call me old fashion but anyone campaigning to legalize marijuana won’t get my vote. More negatives than positives and opens up a entire new box of problems. As for Tate...... I can see where he rubs many wrong but as far as a republican candidate he has the cash on his side so we will see if that and name recognition get him across the finish line against hood.

Guy pushing to legalize weed looked and sounded like he was under the influence. Just saying. “Can’t beat drug dealers so we should join them is just nuts to run on”. If trump doesn’t win the whitehouse again it won’t matter anyway.

[Wildfowler]

Call me old fashion but anyone campaigning to legalize marijuana won’t get my vote. More negatives than positives and opens up a entire new box of problems. As for Tate...... I can see where he rubs many wrong but as far as a republican candidate he has the cash on his side so we will see if that and name recognition get him across the finish line against hood.

Guy pushing to legalize weed looked and sounded like he was under the influence. Just saying. “Can’t beat drug dealers so we should join them is just nuts to run on”. If trump doesn’t win the whitehouse again it won’t matter anyway.

I laughed when I saw that video. He did look impaired. I honestly don’t think we need someone suffering from chronic pain being governor.

[jacksbuddy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJZNufbdDdI

We need more thinkers like this.

I'm sorry, but he is high. Plain and simple.

[donia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJZNufbdDdI

We need more thinkers like this.

I'm sorry, but he is high. Plain and simple.

HA!! guess it is like trusting a skinny chef to cook good food...hard to trust somebody pushing for herb if they don't partake of said herb to know its effects!

[jacksbuddy]

If trump doesn’t win the whitehouse again it won’t matter anyway.

And if that's the case, a lot more people will be stockpiling items for the apocalypse.

[missed mallards]

If trump doesn’t win the whitehouse again it won’t matter anyway.

And if that's the case, a lot more people will be stockpiling items for the apocalypse.

Investment wise, I haven’t seen much of a return dumping cash into Ammo stock. Just saying. And that’s from Obama’s days. I’ve found other “stupid” stocks that pay a whole lot more. But yeah. It would suck

[gps4]

Call me old fashion but anyone campaigning to legalize marijuana won’t get my vote. More negatives than positives and opens up a entire new box of problems. As for Tate...... I can see where he rubs many wrong but as far as a republican candidate he has the cash on his side so we will see if that and name recognition get him across the finish line against hood.

Is weed worse than alcohol?

[JLT]

What about legalizing medical marijuana? I got a very surprising political call about that the other day.

[jacksbuddy]

What about legalizing medical marijuana? I got a very surprising political call about that the other day.

Personally, I am against that. Do we want to give doctors the authority to prescribe a drug that is federally illegal? I know we have some doctors on this site, but Mississippi already has a serious problem with medical professionals over prescribing medication, including opiates and other hard drugs. I am sorry, but from what I have seen, the bad outweighs the good on this issue.

[Trip]

In my opinion, if we could get more of the people on opioids off them and smoking a joint a day, we’d be a lot better off. Grocery stores and restaurants would thrive and crime would go down.

[lilwhitelie]

In my opinion, if we could get more of the people on opioids off them and smoking a joint a day, we’d be a lot better off. Grocery stores and restaurants would thrive and crime would go down.

Do you think legalizing weed will lower crime?? Make people more motivated to work? Problem with legalization is like the opioids. How do you decide who actually “needs” it. Plenty of physicians have made a killing on writing prescriptions based on what the “patients” want and may not need but $$$$ is a huge factor. Weed would be no different. Just another loophole for people to use as an excuse to use it. We all know people on “disability” that are quite capable but choose the easy check and still work for cash. And at what age do you say it’s ok???? I mean if they can find a medical excuse for it then they get it??? Very broad brush there. Let’s just say for fun it’s legalized. You wanna see a bunch of kids stoned all day and the long term affects it will play??? What I see offered from Democrats to save us all is free everything and legalization of weed. Can you see what a utopia that will be and how crime will be non existent??? At least now they have a checks and balances in place for opioids.

Like you said if we could get them off opioids and smoking ONE joint a day we would be better off. People that are dependent on opioids don’t just take one pill a day is the issue. They addictive traits that make them more likely to use more or get something stronger. One joint leads to 2,3,4,5,6 then something stronger. Just not the answer. Big difference in recreational use and everyday use. Not that recreational use is any better or a reason to legalize it. Some people can have a few drinks and others are alcoholics. We don’t need any other problems added to our “free” entitled system that many abuse

[Wildfowler]

I saw an article where a Colorado study showed that teenage use of marijuana has actually decreased since it’s been legalized.

I don’t know that you would see kids stumbling around stoned everywhere?

Freedom can be scary.