The Georgia General Assembly would like to tack on another 1 cent sales tax, this time statewide and solely for transportation. My opinion is we in Hall County may not even see the fruits of our labor on this one. Most of the money is probably going to rural South Georgia and Atlanta. Which is OK if were not paying for it. So I don’t think I can support this one.
On the other hand, I can (reluctantly) support the Hall County SPLOST. It’s been going on since the 80’s and has provided much of the County government’s responsibilities but it has done a lot of good. And now more than ever is the best time to have that extra money to go ahead and move Hall County forward and get ready for the next surge of the housing industry, which always leads to traffic congestion and school over crowding. We’ve had to endure these growing pains way too much here lately becuase they went long unattended too. Now is the perfect time to go ahead with infrastructure developments and inprovements. By the way this would all be funded by the upcoming SPLOST referendum, not sewer users. This would also allow for some help in Hall County’s unemployment area. With construction going on in Hall County and for Hall County it’s only necessary that Hall County citizens be put to work. Craig Lutz is mistaken on how I think this will help us out. He has said that the SPLOST would be the equivalent to the New Deal back in the Great Depression. he also stated that the infrastructure would be funded by sewer services. Now how he gets that roads and school are built by sewer revenue, I’m not quite sure but whatever floats his boat. When you have a 1 cent sales tax specifically for infrastructure, then that 1 cent sales tax usually funds that infrastructure. Also I’ll be working on getting some specifics of the last few SPLOSTs and breaking them down to see just how much they’ve helped us all out.
