Issues
May 22, 2013 JProperty Rights
What is “Regionalism”? – Regionalism is a state imposed layer of regional government over several local/city governments. States promote this idea as a way for neighboring counties and cities to work together to solve problems and implement larger cross-county initiatives. Regionalism in Georgia – House Bill 1216 of 2008 reorganized the Department of Community Affairs [...]
May 20, 2013 JProperty Rights
“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen!” – President Barack Obama, July 2012 The skeletal structure of President Obama’s Summer campaign message in Roanoke, Virginia, received whatever muscle and flesh it still needed to fully come alive [...]
May 14, 2013
The IRS harassment of conservative groups hits close to home – try our very own Peach State where at least one local Tea Party group was targeted in order to smoke out its legitimate coalition with AFP-Georgia!
The Georgia Tea Party Inc has been around since the birth of the tea party movement. The Marietta-based [...]
April 30, 2013 JTaxes
The Georgia Agriculture Tax Exemption program (GATE) rules were only released in January but the impact of the rollout is already having a positive impact on Georgia farmers. The program is an agricultural sales and use tax exemption certificate issued by the Department of Agriculture that identifies its user as a qualified farmer or agricultural [...]
April 30, 2013 JBudget & Spending
In the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel spouted what seems to be the ethos of the current Administration, namely, “never let a good crisis go to waste.” In the absence of a “good” crisis, we can only assume, you manufacture one. The 2013 sequester cuts from [...]