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Sales tax for transportation dead. Trauma network dead. And tax cuts dead.
2/27/2009
The sales tax for transportation package died in the last minutes of the 2008 session of the Legislature, near midnight on Friday - three votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate.
With it died two other major efforts - a measure to fund a statewide trauma network, and dueling efforts to cut taxes.
“It is hard to call this session a resounding success. We reformed Georgia’s antiquated CON laws, but failed to provide long-term funding for trauma care.
Read this blog post from the April 5, 2008 issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
