Posted on 08/01/2012 4:11:21 AM PDT by from occupied ga
Atlanta Metro area rejects a massive tax increase (an additional one percent sales tax on the existing 6% - 8% around the metro area.) The county by county results are as follows:
| County | YES | NO | Total | Ratio yes/total |
| Cherokee | 9105 | 35280 | 44,385 | 20.51% |
| Clayton | 16750 | 19303 | 36,053 | 46.46% |
| Cobb | 38703 | 85412 | 124,115 | 31.18% |
| DeKalb | 57915 | 61792 | 119,707 | 48.38% |
| Douglas | 6383 | 13534 | 19,917 | 32.05% |
| Fayette | 6677 | 21712 | 28,389 | 23.52% |
| Fulton | 69064 | 72365 | 141,429 | 48.83% |
| Gwinnett | 28884 | 70273 | 99,157 | 29.13% |
| Henry | 9405 | 23371 | 32,776 | 28.69% |
| Rockdale | 5433 | 12484 | 17,917 | 30.32% |
| Total: | 248,319 | 415,526 | 663,845 | 37.41% |
If you could find out WHO paid for the ads pushing the atrocity, you would see WHERE the dollars are going. The rancidly corrupt Reed administration would funnel it to his suporters who would then funnel a tithe of it back to him in "campaign cvonributions"
Not just special interest groups. The fix was in by the potical and economic kingpins of Atlanta. The ballot question itself read like an advertisement for creating new jobs and better commute times. Big business like Office Depo and Cox had donated $10MM toward the effort, including free billboards and TV ads. The financially insular CEO of our own Fortune 500 company used the quarterly employee meeting as an infomercial to try to convince us all that we should vote for the T-SPLAT-- replete with guest appearances from the town mayor and the campaign organizer. They had their talking points down about how this would not be like the lies surrounding the use and duration of GA 400 toll booth when it was voted in years ago. The one brave soul who dissented in the meeting was cut off at the knees.
I wondered, "Now, what's in it for the CEO? Special local tax breaks for the company? "Economic development funds" largesse when a commuter light rail is placed nearby? Personal influence? Or some combination of the 3?"
Anyway, I'm delighted he did not get his way on the backs of his underpaid workers. But even with this landslide, I doubt that he and his political cronies will ever get the message of just how sick we are of government avarice and deception. But this vote makes me proud of Atlanta this morning.
The board of citizens was real. The only problem is that they had no more veto power over the spending than you or I do. The bureaucrats and politicians had total control. This was just another lie by the bureaucrats to get their hands on our hard earned money.
Did it ever. Like we could tax ourselves into prosperity. I guess we could tax ourselves into prosperity for the kingpins behind this blatant attempt at robbery. If anyone on this thread has not already read Bastiat's That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen this give a good explanation as wto why job creaton by taxation is a complete lie.
Our grande frommage did the same. Special employee meeting (voluntary attendence - I passed)to push the thing encouraging employees to :volunteer" to drum up the yes vote. I also wondered what was in it for him, because if he had the sense God gave a gnat he would have known that it would be bad for our business - consumers have less to spend on our products and services when they're paying more taxes. I am SO RELIEVED THAT THIS POS WENT DOWN IN FLAMES.
The only problem is that they'll be back again looking to loot us some more in two years. Politicians just don't get it. Until they lose an election to someone who opposes this endless government spending they'll keep it up.
Along those lines, Judy Manning, an anti-gun Republican, lost. I THINK she came out in favor of the tax. One of my friends told me that she did, but I don't really know. I do know that a few republicans around the state who were pushing the tax lost their re-elecion bids.
The graph of city densities at traffictruth.net told the tale. More rail is insanity in Atlanta just because of that, and they weren’t even going to be building much new rail, just maintaining what they have with a huge new tax.
Go to the 4th slide here.
http://www.traffictruth.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DebatePanel.slides.pdf
Anyone with half a brain who understands 1/10th of what this means knows rail is a loser.
Your numbers are way off. Get the gasoline taxes map from this page:
http://www.api.org/Oil-and-Natural-Gas-Overview/Industry-Economics/Fuel-Taxes.aspx
GA is 7.7 cents more than AL, 9.8 more than MS, 7.2 more than TN on taxes.
TN is way behind the curve on highway construction. I-75 should be 3 lanes each way all the way through the state; it is not. I-24 should be 3 lanes each way all the way from Nashville to Chattanooga; it drops to two lanes in Murfreesboro.
One of my friends did a bunch of the engineering design on the new International land side terminal at Hartsfield several years back. He had some sweetheart deal stories on that thing that would curl your hair.
Like the way the concessions at the airport were handed out to Reed supporters?
This was more on the construction side. Things like transaction counters that should have been $5k-7k each costing $20k, that sort of thing.
When you’re dealing with a city run by black democrats no tale of corruption, incompetence, or outright theft of taxpayer dollars is beyond belief
I am going to try to dig through this site some this weekend but all of this is weighted averages. I wonder if they take into account that Georgia’s tax on gas is not fixed. It goes up as the price of gas goes up thanks to our republican legislators. So we never really know the exact amount.
Sorry, I meant to say the percentage goes up as the price goes up.
I was wondering if maybe part of it might be because of special formulations required by EPA because of Atlanta with the requirements ending at the AL line.
Who knows the market is so screwed up and regulated it is impossible to really know what anythings true cost is and how much the government adds on top of that in taxes, fees, and just red tape costs to businesses.
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