Having lived in Atlanta for several years, I can attest to its traffic problems. Metro Atlanta is consistently ranked among the metropolitan areas with the highest average commute time. Nonetheless, Georgia voters overwhelmingly rejected yesterday a proposed $7.2 billion transportation plan that would have focused on Metro Atlanta's traffic woes. That may sound crazy. But here's the thing: Other than intra-city highways, why should an onion farmer in Vidalia have to pay for transportation projects in a major metropolitan area a couple hundred miles away? Specifically, why should he have to pay for public transportation projects he won't use? This is the fundamental problem with funding infrastructure projects at the state and federal level: The people who pay for the infrastructure aren't necessarily the people who benefit from it.
GA Voters Reject $7.2 BILLION Transportation Tax
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Why should anybody pay for any roads that they will never use? Why do I have to pay for the county road in front of the onion farmers field? I'll never use it why should I pay for it? I live one mile to the north and never use that road. As a matter of fact I don't even like that onion farmer and even more his shithole of a road messes up my paved road with that nasty red clay.
ReplyDeleteTransportation can be localized within reason. Within reason.
DeleteYou people missed the cue on the "regional" part of this deal. Glad our voters are getting their education from the uneducated. I take it you're affiliated with FOX News.
ReplyDeleteThe bill included a provision for state funding for MARTA. *State funding*.
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