GailA, the biggest problem we have here is a compliant media- they don't like to rock the boat- and complacent citizens.
We get a lot of "transplants"- from Atlanta, and other big cities, who look at the prices of things- including taxes- and think, "Geez! This is cheap compared to ___."
Problem is, it keeps getting more & more expensive, and some- like us- who are poor may have no choice but to move to cheaper climes.
There's a woman around here- Kathy H, who started investigating the "Toll Bridge Issue"- the only way to Saint Simons is over a causeway, with a toll- and she quickly found herself shut up at Commission meetings, and followed everywhere by the Police. She quickly became silent.
But the heart of the problem is the citizens who elect these corrupt clowns, and don't protest being robbed by them.
It's the same here in Tennessee lots of corrupt pols, pro-tax liberal/socialist media. We did not let that stop us. Citizens in Shelby Co (home county of Memphis) ousted TWO long term GOP County Commissioners in this last primary for their Tax & Spending ways. We put in TWO political unknowns who opposed the hughe property tax hikes we are getting every other year. And to spending tax dollars on an nba arena, 50% pay hikes for the Commissioners. We also defeated the GOP hand picked canidate for Mayor and put in a political unknown espousing the above principals. The State Rep that got left out in the cold by the upset who was running for Mayor was exposed for having voted for 15 tax hikes. He is now expousing MORE tax hikes for the State. Thank God he did not run for re-election as a rep along with running for Mayor.
So in essence we bounced THREE tax and spenders ALL GOP.
The 8 GOP reps who voted for Boss Hogg Naifeh's flat 4.5% income tax plan last Wednesday just may find themselves JOBLESS come Nov. Or the primary in August.