VOTE NO to SPLOST on Tuesday and below are the reasons why! 15 Reasons to Vote NO on SPLOST November 5th 1. SPLOST is a regressive tax that collects a larger percentage of income from lower and middle-income families. 2.The current referendum is called SPLOST 6 but is actually SPLOST 7. The original 1985 SPLOST was extended by referendum in 1989 for an additional four years. 3. Chatham County is the only county in Georgia that has continuously had a SPLOST since it’s inception in 1985. 4. SPLOST damages the local economy by decreasing the amount of disposable income consumers have to spend. 5. Raising your local sales tax from 6 cents to 7 cents is a 16.7% increase; not 1% as claimed by tax proponents. 6. The tourists that proponents attribute 40% of SPLOST collections to include residents from adjacent counties who cross the Chatham county line regularly. 7. Building an unneeded and unwanted $120 million arena on Savannah’s West side will do more to benefit a few Chamber of Commerce firms than ease the economic blight of that neighborhood. 8. Chatham/Savannah public officials boast of an average support of 80% for past referendums but fail to mention that the most recent of these were costly special elections with low voter turnout. (In 2006 SPLOST received 60% support among just 24,000 voters.) 9. SPLOST project costs are repeatedly underestimated while projected SPLOST collections are overestimated. 10. SPLOST funds have been redirected to projects not approved by voters. To accommodate such expenditures in SPLOST VI the County is listing general expenditure categories instead of specific projects. 11. The city’s SPLOST VI list includes incomplete projects from SPLOST V. 12. A portion of SPLOST VI consists of projects voters rejected last year as part of T-SPLOST 13. Property taxes are going to be increased either way. Since SPLOST collections can’t be used for operations; shortfalls in E-SPLOST ($16 million), CAT ($7.8 million) increased operational costs for the Chatham County Jail ($7.9 million) and the SCMPD street drug unit ($4. million) will have to come from higher property value assessments, a millage rate increase or a combination of both. 14. Chatham/Savannah public officials believe they can spend your money more wisely than you. 15. You’re Taxed Enough Already
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 11:20:13 +0000
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