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March 27, 2017

SALTER: Indigent care will always be with taxpayers

Sid Salter: Taxpayers will always pay for indigent care Perhaps the most frustrating fallout from the ongoing national struggle over “repealing and replacing” the Affordable Care Act has been the suggestion that any outcome is going to somehow relieve taxpayers of the responsibility for funding indigent and/or uncompensated health care. Wrong. So much of the…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 27, 2017

LATINO outlines state, local controlled road systems

AFP’s Russ Latino: Infrastructure debate is 2 roads diverged For two years, special interests in Jackson have quietly pushed for $375 million a year in tax increases for infrastructure. Publicly, proponents have chosen to focus generically on road condition instead of being open about their intentions to increase taxes. Most have also ignored a central…