Taxpayers group holds anti-SPLOST meeting in Cobb

The Georgia Taxpayers Alliance begins its campaign against Cobb County’s proposed SPLOST extension with a public meeting on Nov. 6.

If approved, Cobb’s current special purpose local option sales tax will be extended for another six years beginning Jan. 1, 2012. The penny tax extension proposal goes before voters in a March referendum. County officials estimate the tax to generate $746 million.

The GTA is encouraging voters to reject the tax because the county has failed to deliver all of the projects from the 2005 SPLOST, said alliance director James Bell. Also, letting the current SPLOST end next year would boost the economy and make the county more competitive, Bell said.