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DEL.ICIO.USRichardson preached but choir didn’t sing along
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Glenn Richardson went to the Gwinnett Chamber Thursday night to sell a roomful of local politicians and business leaders on his plan to remake Georgia’s tax code.
The Georgia House speaker didn’t seem to win many converts.
“I found a lot of inaccuracies in his statements,” said Lorraine Green, a county commissioner.
Richardson proposes erasing all property taxes in Georgia. To do that, he’d tack the state’s 4 percent sales tax on 127 types of purchases currently exempted from it, like food and medicine.
Then Richardson would parcel the extra money to every local government and school board in the state. That would make up for the roughly $9 billion they’d lose if they could no longer tax people’s property, he says.
No doubt, most folks would give up paying property taxes quicker than an bushel of catfish can start stinking.
But to county commissioners, mayors and school board members, Richardson’s tax pitch sounds a little like telling a kid he’ll get more allowance if he shuts down his lemonade stand.
“I wonder what he [Richardson] would think,” said Sugar Hill Mayor Gary Pirkle, “if all tax collections in Georgia went to Washington to be divvied up by the federal government.”
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By Banish Bannister
October 30, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this
Common sense, anyone?