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OrionTheWolf -> RE: GA Tea Party: “Fixing Our Infrastructure Will Make Us A Terrorist Target!!!” (9/21/2011 5:00:12 AM)
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Where is Hippie at? Cobb County has had many radical things come out of it. A light rail system would eleviate a lot of the traffic coming from one of the main heavy traffic areas of the city. I wish we had light rail here, that went to Atlanta, but at least we have ride share, which has increased quite a bit based upon the amount of cars in their parking lot.
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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto
Tea Partiers: Light Rail an Invitation to Al Qaeda
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The citizens of Cobb County, Georgia, are currently mulling a proposal that would increase property taxes for 10 years in order to fund a new light-rail line between Atlanta to its suburbs. It's a fairly straightforward proposal, the kind of thing that pops up all the time in communities across the country. But if there's been one lesson of the past few years, it's that mundane policy debates have a tendency to become a lot less mundane once tea partiers get involved.
In this case, the Georgia Tea Party is arguing that the county should abandon its light-rail proposal because if the light-rail line were to be completed, it would become a magnet for terrorist attacks. Here's the group's chair, J.D. Van Brink:
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If anyone doesn't believe me – look at England and Spain. Now, if we have a more decentralized mass-transit system using buses, if the terrorists blow up a single bus, we can work around that. When they blow up a rail, that just brings the system to a grinding halt. So how much security are we going to have on this rail system, and how much will it cost?
In other words, Van Brink is arguing that because terrorists fantasize about blowing up American infrastructure, we should avoid spending any money on infrastructure.
And, besides, if the members of the Georgia Tea Party, along with the other taxpayers in Cobb County, have to pay additional taxes to fund a new light-rail line - there’s a possibility that someone not from Cobb County, like from another part of Georgia or even someone from Florida or Alabama. might actually want to ride on it.
Why encourage dead-beat freeloaders?
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