Back in 1985, the Georgia Legislature voted to allow Tax Alocation Districts that would subsidise development in part with tax money from what voters had approved as taxes to fund schools.  It took over twenty years, but the Georgia Supreme Court ruled in February that this is an unconstitutional use of school taxes.  Yeah! for common sense.

So what does Georgia’s Legislature set out to do?  You guessed it – if the Constitution won’t let us pay back our developer buddies with school tax dollars, let’s change the Constitution!  There will be a proposed Constitutional Amendment on the ballot in Georgia this November to specifically allow school funds to be siphoned off into developers’ pockets.

At a more local level, a Gwinnett County attempt to do the same thing is going to be on the ballot in a special election in July.  This hits taxpayers with the cost of running the special election, even though a similar proposal was rejected by voters just a few years ago.  And the developers are hoping that no one but their buddies knows about or bothers to vote in the special election.

Georgia’s schools are already among the worst in the country  - they don’t need their funding reduced further.  It seems to me that the developers and legislators want an uneducated public they can scam at will…