The Georgia
Legislature needs to schedule time to discuss and debate current Georgia Law
that is abusive to voters. Property and bank account seizure should top the
list. Excessive fees and fines levied by cities and counties should be added to
the debate.
Banks in Georgia
should not allow customer accounts to be seized without a court order prompting
a customer notice. If the account holder claims fraud, the seizure should be
stopped. Georgia law needs to correct the laws surrounding government,
collection agency and law firm abuse.
AJC 10/23/18, page A1
article “Woman fights back after firm drains account” tells the story of how
Jacqueline Morgan from Cumming Ga had her account drained by rogue Marietta law firm Cooling & Winter
because of a debt she didn’t owe. This is the same law firm that used to call
itself Frederick J Hanna & Associates and was ordered to pay a $3.1 million
fine and agree to federal monitoring for similar abuses. These crooks should
have called named their law firm Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.
To ensure that
unqualified borrowers are not allowed to become a credit risk to lenders, those
lenders must be able to refuse to lend.
Georgia boasts about
being “business friendly”. They need to
look at how “resident unfriendly” they really are. $1500 fines for not paying
your auto insurance bill on time need to end.
The Georgia
Legislature allows cities and counties to over-borrow without limits and impose
business-killing ordinances. Resident
abuse comes in the form of excessive and unnecessary fees and fines, rotting
infrastructure and property tax gouging due to predatory assessment practices.
The Legislature needs
to tighten down on cities and counties who don’t prioritize their spending
based on utilization to ensure that water is clean, sewers don’t break, roads
and highways are maintained and expanded and gridlock is ended. The utilization
of these systems is 100%. All of these priorities need to be up to snuff before
cities and counties spend any funds on lower priorities that politicians like,
but voters get little benefit.
The Regionalism laws
passed in 2010 and 2012, empowering Regional Commissions to be unelected
governance need to be repealed.
TADs (tax allocating
districts) need to be given a post mortem review to see how many of these
“economic development” projects have failed.
No-knock warrants and
property and bank account seizures need to be eliminated.
Using Bond sales to
fund government entities is a huge waste of money that doubles the cost of everything
that is financed through Bonds. There is no reason for governments and school
systems to waste money on Bond interest.
The obvious solution
to Atlanta gridlock is to either expand the roads and highways or reduce the
population density of the affected areas. That means that zoning laws should be
amended to defend against gridlock density.
Public transit should be privatized to remove tax subsidies, lower costs
and improve efficiency.
Rural Georgia needs
manufacturing plants to return to their cities.
This is the only way rural counties will be able to restore their
economies to pre-1993 viability.
The costs of
government, education and healthcare are unsustainable due to excessive
taxpayer funding. These bureaucracies need to be dismantled and costs reduced.
Georgia political
campaign finance laws need to be reformed to restrict the right to make legal
campaign contributions to registered voters who have these candidates on their
ballot. The cost of these campaigns is unsustainable if voters ever hope to
remove undue special interest dominance of their governments. All Georgia candidates would be on the same
equal footing. Costly, mud-slinging TV ads could be replaced by extensive
candidate websites with full resumes and positions on all relevant issues. All
they really need are websites and yard signs.
Georgia economic
development should be focused on the production and productivity of the private
sector. The legislature needs to ensure that government is not the problem. The
Georgia GDP is the best indicator of our success. This requires that we
continue to reduce costs and improve outcomes using automation, process
improvement and de-bureaucratization.
Judicial Reform - We
also need to track crime and the courts to determine why violent criminals are
routinely released, so we can stop this.
These judges need websites to summarize their cases, failures and
recommendations for solutions.
Education Reform - We
need to reduce the cost of education and improve the outcomes. We need to stop
using Bonds to fund school construction.
We need to dispel the myths about education and admit that students are
actually responsible for their own education and it will be no better than the
effort they invest. We need to recognize that students should identify their
motivated abilities as what they do well and enjoy doing, so they can select a
successful occupation. We need to get the propaganda out of our schools and
universities and ensure that what is taught is a fact, not a politically
motivated theory. We need to agree on
what skills are required to function as adults. We should track the successes
and the failures do determine what works for students.
Healthcare Reform – We
need to reduce the cost of healthcare and repeal all legislation that contributes
to healthcare costs. We need to recognize that all patients are different and
are responsible for their own preventive healthcare. We need to limit
malpractice costs.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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