Pro-transportation tax group gets it mostly wrong

PolitiFact actually got one right, well sort of.  Their analysis is kind of like a baseball ump’s strike zone.  You never know what you’ll get.  But, hey, decide for yourself.

On April 16, 2012, Citizens for Transportation Mobility published a supplemental advertisement in “Georgia Trend” magazine.  They claimed, “…metro Atlanta will create or support an additional 200,000 new jobs, including jobs that are maintained year over year.”   This claim has made it to the airwaves as a fact.  Not so….

“If a project “supports” a job year, it doesn’t mean that it creates one.”

“If Citizens for Transportation Mobility said that the transportation tax “would create 200,000 new jobs,” that would be misleading. The bulk of those jobs would not be new.”

“We also found another hitch. These hundreds of thousands of job years would emerge over the course of a generation, according to the analysis. The study measures growth over a 28-year time period from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2040.”

And here’s a new one that begs for further exploration:

“…economic gains such as savings from reduced travel time and an increase in personal income would develop by 2040.”

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