Georgia voters will be faced with four Constitutional amendments on Election Day. The fourth one asks whether taxes on the sale of fireworks should fund trauma care and public safety services.
That may sound like a good idea, but the Georgia NAACP doesn’t think so. President Francys Johnson says the the consumption-based tax is regressive, and would affect people in different ways.
“People who make higher incomes pay a smaller share of their overall income for that consumption of that good,” he says. “This will largely be born on the backs of poor Georgians.”
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