TSPLOST: All Show and No Go

Recent reporting in the AJC has revealed the true reasons behind this TSPLOST movement and it certainly is not about traffic in and around Atlanta. 

A site relocation consultant is quoted as saying "who wants to be in an area where you don't do anything about this sort of issue?" Exactly what issue? Given the state of the local economy, especially the jobless rate, traffic is not as bad as the boom years. So this "issue" is largely made up by the Tax and Transit forces behind TSPLOST.

A Georgia bureaucrat makes the big reveal. "If TSPLOST doesn't pass [...] it's going to limit growth for Georgia." Another Atlanta dignitary decries the alleged competitive disadvantage: "They'll continue selling against us, but they'll compound that message by saying that our community can't get its act together." Spot on there. If we had ever had our "act together" we'd not have kicked this can so far down the road.

So it is really all about PR and "messaging". We simply must let it be known that Atlantan's will do anything, make any sacrifice--even a regressive tax on every resident--to keep businesses coming, because a slow in growth would expose the decades old ponzi scheme we've been running.

Golly how the truth will out.