Here we are. Primary day.  Voters in a 10-county Atlanta region will decide whether or not to raise their sales tax by a penny a dollar to fund transportation projects .. transportation projects selected by politicians.  Over 50% of the spending will go to mass transit projects – projects that locals have shown they do not want and will not ride; and mass transit operations that will continue to cost money for maintenance and operations years after the sales tax expires – as if it will ever expire.

Just two points ---- we’ve talked about this enough, so I’ll make two points here and y’all go vote.

First … these politicians actually worded the ballot question in the form of an advertisement. Here’s the preamble to the ballot question that will appear in all ten counties … as written by the Georgia Secretary of State:

“Provides for local transportation projects to create jobs
and reduce traffic congestion with citizen oversight.”

That, my friends, is an advertisement.  An advertisement for the sales tax increase disguised as a ballot question.  What do I mean by advertisement?  Well, here is how a neutral ballot preamble would read.

“Provides for a one-cent per dollar increase in the sales tax for a period of ten years for the purpose of funding designated transportation projects.” 

There you go … no promises of creating jobs.  No promises of reducing traffic congestion – something not proven in the studies of the various transportation projects to be funded by this sales tax. 

And here’s a little secret … private sector spending creates jobs as well.  There seems to be this idea that has become popular under big-spending Democrat governance that only government spending creates jobs.  We are supposed to believe that when people spend the money they earn as they see fit, no jobs are created.  It is only by seizing those funds and spending them on politically designated projects that jobs are created.  The trouble is, with our system of government education and the continuing dumbing-down of America by the ObamaMedia, the majority of Americans may well believe that.