Tea Party Revolt to Transportation Funding

Georgia House has proposed to generate $1Billion in transportation funding by leaving the gas tax and imposing a  state excise tax of 29.2 cents per gallon of gas. Local governments would lose $500M in the tax swap.

The proposal allows the local governments to impose new taxes. 

Tea Party supporters oppose the scheme because it is:

• a “scheme”
• would raise taxes on gas by more than 7 cents
• grants tax breaks for large corporations.

Atlanta Journal Constitution