If an 8% sales tax is not to your liking, it is okay to vote down a SPLOST. It isn’t like it will be gone forever. Twelve months later, they can legally come back and ask you again to approve a SPLOST. This is the ultimate line item veto.
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Editor’s Note: Amendment One, ESPLOST, & the education status quo
An essentially bad-faith negotiator like Governor Deal is able to credibly sell himself as a change agent for public education precisely because the people inside the public education status quo always seem to oppose any change with the potential to improve our schools.