T-SPLOST Issues in Henry County

Here are just 3 Questions to ask of the Proponents of T-SPLOST brought to you by  WWW.TRAFFICTRUTH.NET

 1. The TSPLOST projects list has some ultra-expensive projects that are only partially funded. Does the region plan to build a quarter of these projects and leave them unfinished and useless? Or, if the region plans to complete these projects, how will they be paid for without coming back to taxpayers for even larger future tax increases?

2. Some of these projects will require large future operating and maintenance costs with no identified long term future funding source to pay for these expenses. How can these expenses be paid without additional large future tax increases?

3. The pro-TSPLOST people keep trying to scare people into voting for the TSPLOST by saying that there is no "Plan B," but the TIA legislation provides that if any region votes against the tax, the region can then put together a better projects list and bring it back to the voters in 2 years. Isn't that a Plan B

Source:  Google Henry Citizen, Henry County, Issue # 346 & www.traffictruth.net

Comments:  Plan B may take too long and may not kill regionalism.   Plan C should be a defeat of the regional approach, the repeal of TIA and a return to City and County sovereignty over their own roads.  They can have voters vote to decide the priorities and costs and keep their own tax money for their own roads.

Norb Leahy,  Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader