With the surplus in Georgia now being reported at $1.2 billion, we should be pressing the state legislature for a tax break. American for Prosperity is pushing for the legislature to return any funds leftover back to the taxpayers. They have a petition that you can sign at this new website (actually, its a couple weeks old):

In May of 2007, $142 million dollars that had been dedicated to tax relief by the General Assembly was placed into the Revenue Shortfall Reserve by executive action. We, the taxpayers of Georgia, ask you to commit that these funds are not spent in the General Fund as is allowed by law (OCGA § 45-12-93), but pledge that the monies will be dedicated toward tax relief for Georgians.

By state law the surplus is already maxed out at $800 million. This leaves our legislators with far too much of our money in their hands. Idle legislators hands spend time spending our money, especially when there is a significant surplus.

Please sign the petition so we can send a message to our legislators that we want our tax dollars returned for our own personal prosperity instead of them pissing it away on vote buying pork projects.

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