Several prominent Republicans in the state House have just introduced two measures which would halt this summer’s scheduled vote on a regional transportation sales tax, or T-SPLOST. As WABE’s Denis O’Hayer reports, the move raised more questions about the prospects for the T-SPLOST, and about the support of state leaders.
Sponsors of the legislation want to delay the T-SPLOST vote for two years, until voters first approve a constitutional amendment, to allow counties to form the regions that would collect the tax. Acworth GOP representative Ed Setzler told WABE, without a consitutional amendment, he didn’t think the tax would survive a court challenge:
“The constitution does not give the general assembly power to bind counties together, that a single multi-county vote could bind all the counties. The local taxing authority rests at the county level.”
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