On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Erika L. Rich <elr...@ruwebby.com> wrote:
> The Georgia Chamber of Commerce had 8 million dollars to play with for > those ads. Not sure A) where that money originated from or B) if there was > more. Lots of corporate HQs are in Atlanta. They all have huge productivity losses as a result of traffic problems and lack of access to transit. This particularly impacts companies who employ low wage earners, who may not even own a car. I am not 100% who funded the ads, but my guess would be that these companies did. This is a case where the market forces are driving companies to push for something that is socially good. Libertarianism, Free Markets, all that - I see that at work here. The root issue is that the tax base in the city of Atlanta is relatively low compared to the burbs, where people live. That's gradually changing as more and more people (and wealth) are moving back intown, but it's a long slow process. People pay taxes where the live (burbs), not where they work (city). There's a lack of "we're all in this together" here and it's very much an "us vs them" mentality. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353374 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
