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"Hey, look a yonder up in the sky... What's that circling 'round my head... must think I'm bound to die..." There is no telling what issues will be churned out in the headlines during the 40-day General Assembly. However, two of the hottest topics will be the statewide water plan and Glenn Richardson's GREAT tax plan - neither of which bode well for Early County, or hardly any other part of the state - outside the 28- county metro Atlanta area. The water plan, which has raised questions and concerns almost every place it's been discussed across the state, has been criticized by some as little more than a disguised plan to get more water to metro Atlanta to support that area's unbridled growth. The plan suffered another setback when further criticism boiled after it was announced the plan's proposed water districts would follow county lines instead of watershed boundaries. "Water is the real wildcard," UGA demographer Doug Bachtel stated in an article last week revealing Georgia was among the nation's fastest-growing states. Bachtel warned the state's water crisis has the potential to put the brakes on (north) Georgia's boom times. The House Speaker's plan to replace all property tax in the state with sales taxes on services has been debunked by most experts, and undergone defensive changes almost since the day he first introduced it. He has retreated from his original plan to one of replacing school ad valorem taxes only, and only for homeowners. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a proposal to run schools solely on a sales tax doled out by the state get shouted down just a year or so ago? Remember... water and taxes, if the "other Georgia" doesn't stand its ground, all of it will flow through Atlanta. One last thing to help you understand some of the legislator's antics the next couple of months - it's an election year!
By the way, the song... The Dying Convict by the New Christy Minstrills.
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