Issues
August 24, 2012 JBudget & Spending, Taxes
Georgia Tech Professor Christine Ries will unveil a new “People’s Tax Reform Toolkit” this Saturday in Kennesaw at The Georgia E3 Summit. The “toolkit” is a dynamic program that allows citizens to craft tax policy for Georgia and nationwide by showing the real impact on state revenues and a private citizen’s tax obligation based on [...]
August 21, 2012 JBudget & Spending
“We already know how bad it is! Give us something to do about it!” “What ARE the solutions we can promote?” I hear these comments every day from activists around Georgia who are fed up with simply drowning in the problems we face as a State and a Nation. The lack of jobs and economic [...]
August 18, 2012 JTaxes
Reprinted with permission from GPPF Are you frustrated with state taxation policies and absolutely convinced you’ve got better ideas? Step right up, folks, and take a gander coming soon at Tax Reform: The Game, a new interactive web-based game that uses real-world Georgia data as its backdrop. Plug in the numbers, change them around however [...]
August 07, 2012 JBudget & Spending
AFPGA has been a leader in the fight against abuse of the “Universal Access Fund” for years. This fund, created by the Public Service Commission, has become a slush fund for rural phone companies. It works like this: all telephone customers pay a higher rate, a small part of which goes into this fund, presumably [...]
August 06, 2012 JHealth Care & Entitlements
The state health insurance exchanges being called for under ObamaCare are not in the best interest of Georgia. As State Insurance Commissioner, I have repeatedly expressed my opposition to Obamacare. It is a significant expansion of the power of the Federal Government, and I believe it will lead to increased cost, less consumer choice, and [...]