{"id":2349,"date":"2012-02-26T19:24:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2012-02-26T19:24:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:24:31","slug":"ajc-mounting-opposition-in-dekalb-for-1-transportation-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/02\/26\/ajc-mounting-opposition-in-dekalb-for-1-transportation-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"AJC: mounting opposition in DeKalb for 1% transportation tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>This July, voters across the state will be voting for regional 1% sales taxes (much like SPLOST and ESPLOST) for transportation infrastructure &#8212; roads, transit, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re going to be hearing a lot more about that.<\/p>\n<p>The battle in the Atlanta region is shaping up to be a pretty simple one: roads vs. transit, car-dependent suburbs vs. transit-hungry neighborhoods nearer the urban core.<\/p>\n<p>From the AJC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/transportation-referendum\/cracks-grow-in-dekalbs-1362565.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cracks grow in DeKalb&#8217;s support for transit tax<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The DeKalb NAACP has joined some politicians in opposing the proposed one-cent sales tax because the project list does not extend MARTA rail into south DeKalb.<\/p>\n<p>Tax proponents say the opposition is shortsighted and that the tax-funded projects will boost south DeKalb along with the rest of the region.<\/p>\n<p>DeKalb, along with Fulton and Clayton, are considered strongholds by supporters of the measure, with a poll last September bearing that out. The tax would raise $6.14 billion for a 10-county metro region, with more than half of it going to public-transit projects.<\/p>\n<p>John Evans, head of the DeKalb County NAACP, said it is unfair that county residents have been paying a one-cent sales tax to fund MARTA, yet the biggest transit proposal in decades leaves off rail in the I-20 corridor despite years of planning for it. He said the group will campaign against the sales tax.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re saying you have screwed us for years and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve paid all this money and you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even give us this rail to line to Stonecrest Mall,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> Evans said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If traditionally liberal organizations like the NAACP line up against the new tax, then it will be in serious peril.<\/p>\n<p>Other commentators have noted that higher gas prices might also doom the tax, but I think the higher pump prices could put pressure on voters to take bolder steps to relieve congestion and extend transit systems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This July, voters across the state will be voting for regional 1% sales taxes (much like SPLOST and ESPLOST) for transportation infrastructure &#8212; roads, transit, etc. You&#8217;re going to be hearing a lot more about that. The battle in the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/02\/26\/ajc-mounting-opposition-in-dekalb-for-1-transportation-tax\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[41],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-BT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}