Gold Dome’s War on Voters

Our Georgia Legislature has installed a Soviet Regional governance structure.


In 2008, they passed a law to establish Regional Commissions of appointed bureaucrats.  Their job was to begin UN Agenda 21 implementation in Georgia.  Farmers were met with Land Use Plans that turned their farms into federal wildlife preserves, corridors and restrictions for building subdivisions.  They publicized conservation easements designed to destroy small farms.  The Georgia Ag department went after free-range chicken farms. 

In 2010, they passed a law to establish separate Regional Commissions of appointed bureaucrats.  Their job was also UN Agenda 21 related to expanding public transit, trains and buses, despite the fact that these were too expensive to build and more expensive to maintain for a 3% ridership group. They promoted a state-wide 1% T-SPLOST % $18 billion sales tax increase that failed in 9 of 12 regions in 2012. Voters wanted their own cities and counties to keep their own property and other taxes for their own infrastructure.

During the same period, UN Agenda 21 local codes and ordinances written by the American Planning Association and installed by ICLEI (International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives) trained consultants. 

With government becoming 1/3^rd of GDP with costs rising, voters have been more resistant to tax increases for fluff.  Knowing that would happen, the Gold Dome passed a flurry of laws to “cut out the voters”.  They don’t want voter approval, because they know the answer would be NO.

Georgia Law allows cities and counties to borrow up to 10% of all the property on their tax registry.  That includes our property.  In Dunwoody, that total is about $2 billion.  So the City of Dunwoody can borrow or sell Bonds for up to $200 million.  But annual revenue is about $25 million.  That’s like allowing a home borrower with a $25,000 a year income to be approved for a $2 million loan.  A vote of 4 of our 7 City Council Reps could decide to sell $2 million in bonds, creating a $4 million debt for Dunwoody, a $25,000 revenue city.

Georgia Law also allows cities and counties to receive State permission to establish “Special Tax Districts” that can borrow and sell Bonds with no limits for “new services”.  Years ago Georgia Law allowed for the formation of Community Improvement Districts (CIDs).  These are the retail centers including large malls, who use city and county property as collateral to borrow whatever they want.

We have also seen large increases in traffic tickets, permit and inspection fees and fines for things that never required permits before, like driveways, roofs, ovens, HVAC units, hot water heaters and digging a hole in your yard.   Homeowners who do not comply are fined.

Property Tax abuse was reported in Hall County when the County Commission hired an out-of-town consulting firm to set new property rates.  They jumped as high as 300% and beyond for lakefront homes.

Several cities and counties across the US have gone bankrupt when large “economic development” projects were borrowed for, build and failed, leaving the taxpayers holding the bag. 

Bad federal plans need to be rejected including Obamacare, Common Core, EPA air and water regulations, UN Agenda 21 policies, Wildings Project wildlife refuges, excessive immigration, refugee resettlement and HUD’s suburban property value destruction plan.

The Gold Dome has left Georgia with “government of the government, by the government and for the government”.  90% of the bills moving through the Gold Dome are for the benefit of government entities including cities, counties, school districts, special tax districts and agencies.  

Cobb County voters were shut out of the process in the Braves Stadium deal.  Other counties and cities are borrowing without voter approval across the state.

Now Gov. Bad Deal wants to take over the failing schools and give them a appointed Soviet Regional Education Commissions to fix them.  Soviet Regionalism must be repealed, not expanded

We need Legislators to review and correct these abuses.  If they do, great.  If they don’t, they need to be replaced. The federal bribes embedded in grants to states are poison to the free market.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader