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    (snip)"The legislation calls for amending the Georgia Constitution to allow the return of Milton County, which succumbed to financial troubles during the Depression and was folded into Fulton County in 1932.

    The former Milton County is now mostly white and Republican and one of the most affluent areas in the nation. Atlanta and its southern suburbs are mostly black, are controlled by Democrats and have neighborhoods with some of the highest poverty rates in America. (Buckhead, a fashionable Atlanta neighborhood of clubs, restaurants and mansions, would remain in Fulton County.)

    "The only way to fix Fulton County is to dismantle Fulton County," said state Rep. Jan Jones, the plan's chief sponsor. "It's too large, and certainly too dysfunctional, to truly be considered local government."

    Jones, a former marketing executive who lives in the Fulton suburb of Alpharetta, cited the county's troubled library and public transit systems and a jail that was taken over by a federal judge because it was filthy and unsafe. He denied the move is racially motivated.

    Don Petree, the 62-year-old owner of Don's Hairstyling in Roswell, another northern Fulton suburb, said many of his customers "feel like they're not being taken care of like they should be with the tax dollars they're spending. I think there's some truth to that."

    Milton County would have a population of about 300,000, instantly making it Georgia's fifth-largest county.

    Residents of north Fulton represent 29 percent of the county's population of 915,000 but pay 42 percent of its property taxes, according to a local taxpayers group. A split would lead to the loss of $193 million in property taxes alone for Fulton County."(snip)

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    Default Re: Middle Class fighting back in Georgia

    But Melonie, who is going to pay for the poor then!

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    ^^^ remaining Fulton county residents, while they stick around !!!

    This isn't really any different than what's happening more slowly and stealthily n New York and California and Michigan. But 'Milton County' residents have a chance to accomplish the same objective without moving out of state - in fact without moving at all !


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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    "The world will change when you are ready to pronounce this oath:
    'I swear on my life, and my love of it, that I will NEVER live (work) for the sake of another man, nor EVER ask another man to live (work) for the sake of mine!'"



    if only more Americans had listened to this message 50 years ago ...

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    Default Re: Middle Class fighting back in Georgia

    I live in Fulton County, since I rent and not own I don't pay the kind of taxes some people do, I do hear they're very high. I have to agree that Fulton County is very too large though! It goes from the Downtown Area, I think even the airport area and all the way up to North Alpharetta which is about an hour drive (w/o traffic) while the other counties are not even close to this large such as Dekalb, Gwinnett, Forsyth, etc. I think this would be a good idea just for size sake, I've always wondered why Fulton County was so big to begin with and now I know.

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    You pay the taxes, they are folded into your rent payment.

    Of course, if the taxes go down, it isn't likely your rent will go down... it being based on "the market" of course.

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