Case hasn’t been made for more SPLOSTs
From The Telegraph, Walton Wood, as a Special to The Sun News, Oct 26, 2011 “Hang onto your wallets, ladies and gentlemen — it’s SPLOST season and once more the “fat cat power brokers” of the tax-and-spend genre will attempt to remedy their insatiable appetite for your money.” Read the full article: Click Here
Video: Rep. Jason Spencer House District 180
“T-SPLOST will increase the retail sales tax by 1% on most purchases – including groceries – bringing the overall sales tax rate in some Georgia counties to 8%.
What Is Really Behind T-SPLOST? Part One
Environmental justice: A new movement to restrict your movement Part one of a series by the Washington Times with information dating back to a 1994 executive order by Bill Clinton. “The obscure memorandum of understanding, based on a long-forgotten executive order signed by President Clinton in 1994, marries the issues of environmentalism and social justice.
100% Cost Over-run
Thanks to a Facebook friend we learned the following. Charlotte ran construction deficits double their Light Rail budget. From the Charlotte Business Journal, Friday Sept 2, 2011 “Charlotte’s first light rail line was plagued by cost overruns that pushed the total price to nearly $463 million – double original estimates when it opened four years
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
The Real Issue is Travel Times
Wendell Cox, public policy expert, former member of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission who has also worked on transportation projects in the Atlanta area, says transit won’t solve Atlanta’s traffic problems. “Transit accounts for barely 1 percent of metropolitan travel. Yet the roundtable plan would commit more than 30 times that on transit. Nearly
T-SPLOST Won’t Work
Too Little Congestion Relief T-SPLOST is weak and late on congestion relief. Assuming drivers will take trains and buses is naïve at best and dishonest at worst. Congestion relief requires establishing a grid, T-SPLOST doesn’t do that. What T-SPLOST Does T-SPLOST is designed to bail our MARTA, expand wasteful public transit, fix a few expensive
Transportation Investment Act of 2010
Read the final Transportation Investment Act of 2010 legislation as defined in House Bill 277 passed by the Georgia House and Senate.
