Panel Discusses Transportation Sales Tax
Replay Patch's live coverage of Tuesday's transportation sales tax discussion.
Live Coverage of Transportation Sales Tax
Leaders from throughout metro Atlanta participated in a panel discussion on next year's transportation sales tax.
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More than 75 people attended a Dunwoody panel discussion on Tuesday on next year's proposed regional transportation sales tax.
Patch covered the event live, which you can replay. And visit Patch’s Facebook transportation sales tax page in which we discuss next year's T-SPLOST vote.
Also, just because our live coverage of the event is over, you can still join in the discussion in the Comments section of this article.
Mike Lowry
10:03 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Interesting to note that there is no specific discussion of the pros and cons of spending an additional $4 billion on rail, only a comment that "it creates construction jobs". Think of what we could do with $4 billion in real congestion-relief projects if we didn't pour it down the rail rathole.
Susan
11:57 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
After reading this article on the TIA I would like to see a link that will provide more info. Do you have one?
Ann Marie Quill
12:15 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Susan, here you go: http://www.atlantaregionalroundtable.com/
Jake Lilley
8:40 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I have no problem with a rail system, so long as it is paid for directly by fare sales. This means that the people who ride the rail, pay for the rail. I drive a car and I pay for the road via tolls and a gasoline sales tax. I would not ask a rail commuter to pay for the road on which I drive, so why should I pay for a rail that I do not ride? Call me old fashioned, but I think people should pay for what they use.
Clyde
12:14 am on Thursday, November 17, 2011
uh... jake, my man. mike makes a good point below, and the point was already made (with citation) that drivers are paying a lesser share of the cost of roads than riders are for commuter rail. "old fashioned" may fit here, but not in any good sense of the phrase.
Mike Bain
9:43 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Jake - Do you think that all of the gas taxes you pay only pay for the roads on which you drive?
Hal Schneider
11:29 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Where are all the libs out there. Sales tax is one of the most regressive taxes in existence, hitting the poor disproportionately harder than the wealthy! We're talking about increasing the sales tax in most metro Atlanta counties to 8%. If others get their way, we could have a 9% national sales tax on top of that or even worse, a 23% Fair tax, giving us a 31% sales tax! You people are out of your minds if you vote in favor of this! This stuff has to stop!
Clyde
12:15 am on Thursday, November 17, 2011
regressive is polysyllabic. flat ain't. you lose, hal. sorry.
No Name
1:11 pm on Thursday, November 17, 2011
Of course libs aren't really all about the poor or they wouldn't support the lottery either. They pander just enough for the vote and most are too ignorant (as in uninformed) to know the difference, so they vote for their own demise.
DAP
9:12 pm on Saturday, November 19, 2011
Rail transit is Socialism and we cannot have that!