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December 21, 2003
Predicted Inconsistency
Many Republican state leaders, including Sen. Eric Johnson (Savannah) have all but encouraged the city of Atlanta to raise its taxes as high as possible to pay for its problems before they will even consider helping out with state money. Now that many rural school systems have already done so, do you think Republicans will likely lead the charge for a restructuring of the state tax system to help pay for the rural education that, along with city of Atlanta schools keeps Georgia ranked #51? Count me among the first to predict that state Republican leaders will be against a tax restructuring (especially if it results in poor/a majority of Georgians paying less in taxes overall) when the state's rural school systems sue the state.
Look for Atlanta citycouncil members to continue to balk at raising taxes to placate Republican legislators who actually only dislike high taxes when their donors are paying them.
Posted by Chris at December 21, 2003 11:47 PM
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