Restoring Rural Georgia

The best bet for attracting manufacturing back to rural Georgia counties is to send them to counties who had them in the first place and lost them after 1993.

Rural Georgia finally gets the Legislature’s attention, AJC, 1/2/18 reports bad ideas coming from Rep Sam Watson.

The legislature should lift the “certificate of need” regulations from rural Georgia counties, so they can set up small hospital facilities, but the rest of Sam Watson’s Bill should be ignored. 

Giving tax breaks to get people to move to rural Georgia and subsidizing internet costs will not accomplish anything.

GA House Rep. Sam Watson, Republican Moultrie GA owns a 500 acre farm.  The Population of the City of Moultrie is 14,268 and is located in Colquitt County GA population 45,798. It is in South, Central Georgia near Valdosta GA.  

Of the 159 counties in Georgia, only the Metro Atlanta counties of Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Cobb have populations over 700,000. The next largest 6 counties have populations between 200,000 and 300,000. The next largest 15 counties have populations between 100,000 and 200,000.  The other 134 counties have populations under 100,000. 70 rural Georgia counties have populations under 20,000.

https://www.georgia-demographics.com/counties_by_population

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader