Business & Government vs. Voters

A Labyrinth of Laws

Georgia has accumulated a labyrinth of laws allowing city councils and county commissions powers to bypass the voters.  One of these traps was T-SPLOST.  If it had passed, we would have an aggressive 5^th layer of appointed, unaccountable central planning government like California. 

What we still have instead is Regional appointees laundering Obama stimulus funds with strings attached, like bike lanes and economic development. 

This blurs the lines between private enterprise and government and leaves the taxpayers holding the bag when central planning fails, as it usually does.  It accelerates corporate welfare and joins government and crony businesses to pick voters pockets. 

Voters are Expendable

The Cobb County Commission vote to move the Braves to Cobb is the most recent example of taxation without giving Cobb voters the right to vote on this billion dollar loss transfer.

Like MARTA, the Braves are in a quest to increase ridership to something above 31,000 per game. Real economic development should involve bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.  The Braves move is recreation development. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader