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