Sam Olens, the Republican chairmain of the Cobb County Commission, picked apart Glenn Richardson’s tax plan today. Here’s an excerpt:
The basic tenets of this proposal…undermine “home rule,†granting much control to the General Assembly in determining the levels of services local governments ought to provide its citizens. If Richard’s House Resolution 900 / “The GREAT Plan†passes, the General Assembly will adopt a formula for determining the revenue available to each and every local government….
He then throws out several rhetorical questions that make clear what the proposal is: a power grab designed to force local governments to cede all local control of their revenue to the Legislature. In other words, Glenn Richardson missed the class where conservatives were taught to embrace local control.
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Really they have a habit of doing this, right down to trying to force public schools to let “home schooled” athletes play for sports teams at schools they dont even attend.
Richardson is no different. Good scoop.
Sam Olens isn’t perfect (he backed Ralph Reed?), but damn he’s smart and would make for a good guvna. And he might be the only person in the state that could make happen real regional mass transit.
I’m rarely, rarely impressed by elected officials, but listen to Olens speak in public or on a panel, and the guy is good.