Gold Dome Central Planning

Legislation is tightly controlled by the governor and his insiders using committee loading, contacts and chaos scheduling.  Many bills that will be passed will be flawed, but passed anyway.  What our puppet-masters learn about these flawed bills will help them “finally get it right” in the next session.  So a number of Bills will always have post-op infections.

The priority Bills always include changes requested by other government entities including federal, county, city and other entities like MARTA or Special Tax Districts. Over 90% of all Bills are for government entities, usually benign, but often the changes allow more predatory powers given to other government entities. 

The perception is “us and them”. Government is insular and busy protecting itself, but is also eager to expand to assume more power and responsibility.  Government’s footprint needs to be reduced as much as possible, but I see no priority to do that.

The fact that Cobb voters did not have the Braves Stadium deal on their ballot is the poster child for this kind of “top-down” feudalism. The fact that voters have no control over immigration tells us how much our rights have been eroded.

There are rarely bills that restore voter control or power transferred to voters to determine how much more debt or taxes government will confiscate. Voters are still not protected from unconstitutional search and seizure. No-knock warrants, seizure of bank accounts and citizen cash, collusion, special treatment and amnesty for government employee malfeasance are still in effect.

UN Agenda 21 enabling “regionalism” laws like HB 277 have not been repealed. Property value killers like HUD zoning, conservation easement and threats to property owners’ water rights have not been secured. Federal bribes in the form of grants to states with strings attached continue to flow, despite the fact that the federal government is bankrupt. Unconstitutional federal actions are rarely ever challenged by the State.

The core responsibilities of government are limited to those things that governments do, like building and maintaining roads, bridges and highways, storm sewer systems, waste sewer systems, waste water treatment facilities and clean water treatment and distribution.

Every function government takes on that is not included in this short list of critical infrastructure systems should be questioned and given back to the private economy, families and individuals.

Most federal departments, agencies and programs are unconstitutional and are not included in the federal governments’ enumerated powers. The 10^th Amendment assigns these to the States and the People.

Third party pay systems violate free market rules and don’t allow the market to set prices. This corrupts the entire economy and inflates prices beyond their value. What we are doing simply doesn’t work.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader