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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Everybody hates property taxes but …
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A proposal by House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) to end property taxes in Georgia by lifting the state sales tax is a popular idea.
Last week’s Insider Advantage, the online political newsletter and polling firm, ranked the issue No. 1 among Georgia voters.
The elected leaders of cities, counties and school boards across the state aren’t among them. That’s because if it passed, local governments would hand most of their power to raise their own tax revenue to the state.
The sentiment may be particularly strong in Gwinnett.
“From what we’ve seen so far, the great plan would be not be great for Gwinnett County,” Gwinnett Commissioner Lorraine Green said.
Green argued that under such a system, larger metro counties would lose out to rural Georgia in divvying up of sales tax revenue among local governments.
An added sales tax might dampen collections from special purpose local option sales taxes, Green said.
“We’d like to get rid of taxes, but this isn’t the way to do it,” Green said.
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