Voters reject transportation tax.

Distrustful of government and riven by differences, metro Atlanta voters on Tuesday rejected a $7.2 billion transportation plan that business leaders have called an essential bulwark against regional decline.
The defeat of the 10-year, 1 percent sales tax leaves the Atlanta region's traffic congestion problem with no visible remedy. It marks failure not only for the tax but for the first attempt ever to unify the 10-county region's disparate voters behind a plan of action.

"Let this send a message," said Debbie Dooley, a tea party leader who early on organized opposition to the T-SPLOST tax measure. "We the people, you have to earn our trust before asking for more money.

:woo hoo:

Kasim Reed, who fought years for the referendum as a legislator and as Atlanta mayor, rallied supporters gathered at a hotel in downtown Atlanta. "The voters have decided," Reed said. "But tomorrow I'm going to wake up and work just as hard to change their minds."

Look at the quote above from Kasim, What he is really saying is " I don't care what the voters want, I am going to keep trying to ram this down your throats, because I am the government and I know what is best for you". Read more here

Good job people of Atlanta

How does I'm going to work hard to change the voter's minds become I'm going to ram this down their throats in your mind?

I'm amazed at your ability to know exactly what someone, you don't even know, is thinking.

Maybe he will follow Romney's lead in Mass and make it a fee. Would you consider fees as ramming something down the voters throats?

archer wrote: Maybe he will follow Romney's lead in Mass and make it a fee. Would you consider fees as ramming something down the voters throats?

Yes I would, just as our own Governors have done.

Kasim reminds me of the Rec District proponents, no matter how many times the proposal is rejected they just keep coming back again and again. :bash

Grady wrote: Kasim reminds me of the Rec District proponents, no matter how many times the proposal is rejected they just keep coming back again and again. :bash

Yep. Not to mention RTD... :faint:

I agree with both of you...a fee is just a tax with a different definition. I think Romney's claim that he balanced the budget in Mass without raising taxes,while technically correct, is still a misrepresentation of his tenure as governor.

RTD is a great example why voters are distrustful about this stuff. Fastracks is way over budget and behind schedule.

One of my buddies was trying to get this passed in Atlanta, I asked him if he couldn't wait for it to be built. And he admitted he wouldn't use it, he just wanted other drivers off the road.