GA teabaggers - out to block transportation investment in GA

[RT Atlanta]

Next year, we (the voters) will have the ability to vote on whether to impose a $0.01 sales tax to fund transportation IMPROVEMENTS in each of the Georgia's 12 regional transportation districts. The GA teabaggers dont like funding improvements or anything to better society (so can we just send them to island of Elba?).

The blogged article below (from the Atlanta Journal Constitutiion) provides some more insight into the state of teabaggery here in GA and its pathos (not ethos):

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2011/08/09/tea-party-organizing-to-block-transportation-tax/

This quote is the blog's 'money shot:'

But most of all, as tea party coordinator Debbie Dooley acknowledges, the group intends to fight the regional tax “as a matter of principle,” because it is a tax.

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Can I just say, again, how ridiculous the teabaggers are. As Bookman notes so well, challenging new proposals can be healthy for a Democracry, but doing something essentially for shiggles is just mind boggling (to me). There are 12 pages worth of comments and you can see some of what Georgia has to offer.

[dtexdem]

1. Tea Party Traitors are out to destroy this country.

All in the name of their fantasies.

[onehandle]

2. When our roadways crumble into dust, let it be a teabagger that first runs into a pothole...

...at high speed.

Georgia is rushing to become Mississippi in the 1950s.

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. In fairness tho... This *is* a sales tax we're talking about here.

Which means it will have a much greater impact on lower income individuals than on higher income individuals.

[RT Atlanta]

4. I appreciate the perspective, but it's a penny....

...to pay for badly needed transporation improvements (and new projects) that are BADLY needed in this state. This is transportation infrastructure used by everyone, not just the rich.

Our state is a "business friendly" (read: low taxes) enough - we must have some re-investment in the state: infrastructure and public schools (see the recent mess with APS) to start a long term trend toward advancement (not the slow slide into the 1950s).

On edit: cool wind farm pic from your summary page.

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. Seems like they're barking up the wrong tree with the sales tax then.

It's a penny here, a penny there. A penny for the sewer improvements, a penny for mass transit, a penny for the roads... when does it ever end? Why not raise the income tax? Or tax businesses a little more? Rather than place the burden on people with fixed incomes or no income at all.

[RT Atlanta]

7. From what I recall,

The proposed referendum vote (to implement a sales tax in each regional transportation district) was the only way the legislation could pass the republican controlled legislature. The thought being that while this involved a much-hated tax, it will be up to the citizens from each district to vote on whether to self-impose the tax, rather than it coming down from on-high by the republican-led legislature. In this case, given the political makeup of our state, you may very well see some voters in the regional transportation districts reject the sales tax and thus not have it implemented, while other districts will hopefully vote to implement the tax (hoping so for improvements in the ARC).

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. Don't forget...

The teabaggers would love nothing more than a sales tax only system and to do away with income taxes altogether.

[CatWoman]

6. I was commenting on that thread earlier today

lots and lots of wingnuts on that blog........

[Erose999]

9. These suburban shitheels will bitch nonstop about Atlanta traffic. But they're all against public

transportation, of any kind. What they want is 8 or 10 more lanes of 285 so they can bypass the city in their giant SUV's at 90mph, with their air conditioning on full-blast, non-stop.