2009 Columns

LET’S FURLOUGH LEGISLATORS AND BUREAUCRATS AND MAKE THEM COLLECT BACK TAXES I have a way to cut the state’s $2 billion deficit significantly while keeping members of the General Assembly, the state’s constitutional officers and assorted bureaucrats busy doing something meaningful for a change. Impossible, you say? Hear me out. I must confess I was inspired by the … [Read more...] about Mar. 23, 2009: Let’s Furlough Legislators And Bureaucrats And Make Them Collect Back Taxes

BALLOT BOX MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO DEAL WITH LEGISLATIVE TAX EVADERS I think I have just figured out a way to get the 22 legislative tax evaders out of the General Assembly and onto the streets where they might have to find real work and quit swilling from the public trough. Don’t re-elect the miscreants. It worked like a charm two years ago. Remember Jeanette Jamison, … [Read more...] about Mar. 16, 2009: Ballot Box Most Effective Way To Deal With Legislative Tax Evaders

SOME LEGISLATORS WANT TO SPEND TAX DOLLARS, NOT PAY THEM Let me say unequivocally that Rep. Al Williams, D-Midway, and I are on the same page regarding the fact that the Georgia Department of Revenue says Williams and about 10 percent of his colleagues in the Georgia General Assembly are delinquent in paying their taxes. Williams, who reportedly owes the state $42,672 in back … [Read more...] about Mar. 9, 2009: Some Legislators Want To Spend Tax Dollars, Not Pay Them

DALTON AREA FRUSTRATED WITH POLITICIANS’ LACK OF COMMUNICATIONS With apologies to Cool Hand Luke, what we have here is a failure to communicate. The people of Dalton are sorer than a carbuncle at the perceived lack of interest by elected officials in their time of economic suffering. Metro Dalton, which includes Whitfield and Murray counties, has seen its unemployment rate … [Read more...] about Mar. 2, 2009: Dalton Area Frustrated With Politicians’ Lack Of Communications

NATIONALLY CERTIFIED TEACHERS DESERVE BETTER FROM STATE GOVERNMENT How would you like to work in a business with 236 CEOs telling you what to do, but with only a few having the foggiest notion what your job entails and no responsibility for what happens? In other words, how would you like to be a public schoolteacher in Georgia? The 236 CEOs are the members of the Georgia … [Read more...] about Feb. 26, 2009: Nationally Certified Teachers Deserve Better From State Government