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Johns Creek Mayor on TSPLOST – Tax is not more Tax

Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker, Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves, and others talk TSPLOST for North Fulton during the one-sided “Wireside Chats” From the Alpharetta, Roswell, and other North Fulton Patch articles: Bodker: “This Tax is not intended to create more tax.” Huh? Read the article: Click Here Chairman Eaves discussed how the tax

Politics Trumps Reducing Traffic Congestion

The Atlanta Transportation Tax: Too Much for Too Little June 5, 2012 By Wendell Cox “The measure is highly tilted towards transit spending. Sadly, this would do virtually nothing to reduce Atlanta’s traffic or its travel times.” “…less than five percent of work trip travel is by transit, the tax measure devotes more than 50

Deal’s support for T-SPLOST gets a “Flip-Flop” from PolitiFact

From AJC, Friday, June 8, 2012 “The Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform has become a major player in Republican Party politics with its Taxpayer Protection Pledge. More than half the members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed the pledge. Nearly half the U.S. Senate has signed it. Nearly all the signers are Republicans.

These days, the governor drives Georgia road planning

On June 6, 2012, Joe Earle, Editor of the “Reporter Newspapers” provided this preface to the main article. “Dunwoody resident Bob Dallas writes an occasional column for Reporter Newspapers and www.ReporterNewspapers.net called “Dallas On Transportation” or “DOT.” Dallas headed the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety under former Gov. Sonny Perdue. He will answer questions about

What Is Really Behind T-SPLOST?

Remember the Washington Times article about Environmental Justice? It was Part One of a series uncovering a movement to restrict your movement. If you didn’t get a chance to read it go here: http://www.traffictruth.net/index.php/2012/06/what-is-really-behind-t-splost-part-one/ Little did we know our own Fulton County Commission Chairman, John Eaves, pushed through an Environmental Justice resolution right here in

THE WRONG TAX AT THE WRONG TIME CHASING THE WRONG SOLUTION

STATE T-SPLOST IT’S THE WRONG TAX AT THE WRONG TIME CHASING THE WRONG SOLUTION THE WRONG TAX It is the wrong tax for several reasons. It is increasing most communities’ sales tax from 7% to 8%. Atlanta could go to 9%. When you couple this with a state income tax of 6% the

WSB’s Adam Goldfein on T-SPLOST

T-SPLOST: Additional Thoughts May 29, 2012 Adam’s Blog, T-SPLOST. The effectiveness of the T-SPLOST at creating and funding large regional projects needs to be questioned. If multiple counties are coming together to build transportation projects, why don’t we see large projects like a northern arc or comprehensive rail system? The project lists are littered with

County plans sessions on tax

From The Brunswick News, June 2, 2012 The Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce is for it, but the Glynn County Republican Party is not. Now, the Glynn County Commission wants to make sure residents get the complete lowdown on the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax for transportation before voting to accept or reject it