HR 1 fails

Feb 12, 2009 14:12

House votes it down, 105-67.

It needed 120 to pass since it's a constitutional amendment.

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dtpattillo February 12 2009, 21:08:58 UTC
what was HR1?

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elemess February 13 2009, 00:57:31 UTC
HR 1 was the House version of the 1% transportation tax. It was competing with a Senate version that I lost track of.

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flav_o_rich February 13 2009, 04:30:25 UTC
I wonder if our 'lobbyist' was aware of that when he spoke to us at a luncheon today. But I think he's more in favor of the regional T-SPLOST idea instead. Allow the voters decide to raise their own taxes, and then the politicians don't have to wring their hands and worry about looking like THEY voted to raise our taxes. If you pass a 1% transportation sales tax state-wide, then the pols are going to screw it up every bit as bad as the Department and its Board has in the past, all the way back to the 1950s.

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elemess February 13 2009, 17:14:39 UTC
Well, the vote didn't happen until after lunch, so he's off the hook for that.

The 1% state-wide tax would have to be approved by the voters at the 2010 election (it's a constitutional amendment), but the regional plan calls for specific referendums by individual counties or groups of counties and cities to implement the 1% tax on themselves. The regional plan, though, would also need a majority in 2010 to pass in the first place.

Rumor has it the regional plan is dead, but now that HR 1 is toast, it could easily be revived.

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Transportation? anonymous February 13 2009, 17:42:49 UTC
HR1 is the property-tax assessment freeze.

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Re: Transportation? elemess February 13 2009, 19:42:22 UTC
whoops - my bad.

I'm getting everything mixed up. Had transportation on the brain.

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