Clayton County Group Pushes For Transit Vote (Atlanta, Forsyth: sales, income)

[LynnHarris]

It looks like a new group is trying to get transit restored in Clayton county.

Clayton groups push for transit vote *| ajc.com

[tonygeorgia]

Wow. $49 million a year vs $100 million in 10 years is a big difference

[cittic10]

I have nothing against transit systems but Clayco has some pretty serious problems and having bus lines alone is not going to bring back businesses to the area. Forsyth county has no transit and it was at one time one of the fastest growing counties in the country. Or so they would say.

I hope they get it but a sales tax increase is not the way to go about it.

[cqholt]

Clayton county is the perfect candidate for MARTA. A lot of people have no cars and have no way of getting to work. It would open the area up to jobs in fulton and northward. Access to jobs is the only way to solve poverty.

[AcidSnake]

In a regressive state like Georgia, sales taxes are really the only viable option, because the upper classes will never allow themselves to be taxed even more via income tax. There are Corporations here in Georgia who pay almost nothing in taxes, because they have so much pull with the state legislature and Governor's office.

You can go to any state in what's considered the "deep south" and find that the only way that state can raise any significant amount of money is through sales taxes. This was the case when the south's political offices were populated mostly with the democratic party and still is the case now that it's mostly the Republican party at the helm.

I hope that Clayton County is able to approve its transit sales tax. This measure will go very far in convincing the Feds that Dekalb, Atlanta, Fulton, and Clayton are especially deserving of a significant portion of transit funds.

Originally Posted by cittic10

I have nothing against transit systems but Clayco has some pretty serious problems and having bus lines alone is not going to bring back businesses to the area. Forsyth county has no transit and it was at one time one of the fastest growing counties in the country. Or so they would say.

I hope they get it but a sales tax increase is not the way to go about it.

[StAubin]

Originally Posted by cittic10

I have nothing against transit systems but Clayco has some pretty serious problems and having bus lines alone is not going to bring back businesses to the area. Forsyth county has no transit and it was at one time one of the fastest growing counties in the country. Or so they would say.

I hope they get it but a sales tax increase is not the way to go about it.

Forsyth has a GRTA Xpress bus route.

[gtcorndog]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Clayton county is the perfect candidate for MARTA. A lot of people have no cars and have no way of getting to work. It would open the area up to jobs in fulton and northward. Access to jobs is the only way to solve poverty.

Of course. Those people WANT to work, they just don't because they can't get to their 50th floor corner office in midtown. You have convinced me.

[cqholt]

Of course. Those people WANT to work, they just don't because they can't get to their 50th floor corner office in midtown. You have convinced me

Many of those people do want to work, if just they they can't find work that they can travel to or have rides. Not everybody can or wants to own a car. You need to quit assuming that the residents of Clayton County want to collect checks, many of them do want to work. If you have never been in that position, which by the way you post you have never been, then you would not know what its like!

[westau]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Many of those people do want to work, if just they they can't find work that they can travel to or have rides. Not everybody can or wants to own a car. You need to quit assuming that the residents of Clayton County want to collect checks, many of them do want to work. If you have never been in that position, which by the way you post you have never been, then you would not know what its like!

If you just don't want to, you should move next to a Marta station. I get the can't thing, but don't want to and expecting it to come to you would be dumb.

[AcidSnake]

You might well be wasting your words and time with some folks.

That's why the conservative mindset to me will always represent nothing more than complete bullcrap. If a county is willing to try to pay its own way for transit and it doesn't require monies from other counties, should that not be applauded?

And yet, there are still folks who are obsessed over finding something...anything...to gripe about with the 3 inner core counties of Dekalb, Fulton, and Clayton and it's citizens. Some folks simply find happiness in the misery and precarious plights of others, I guess.

Just chalk that one up to one of the finer points of Southern Conservatism 101.

Originally Posted by cqholt

Many of those people do want to work, if just they they can't find work that they can travel to or have rides. Not everybody can or wants to own a car. You need to quit assuming that the residents of Clayton County want to collect checks, many of them do want to work. If you have never been in that position, which by the way you post you have never been, then you would not know what its like!