T-SPLOST, Food Tax, Agenda 21 & Regional Government
“The tax levied by this article shall be applicable to the sale of food and beverages.”
– H.B. 277 of 2010, Page 13, Line 441
Question. Where did a pharmacist, a professional earth-mover, a businessman, a veterinarian, a real estate agent and a retiree get a 33-page bill to implement Agenda 21 in Georgia?
Answer. A federally created NGO, the American Planning Association, published the Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change and its User Manual to provide model planning and zoning bills for use in any U.S. state. The theme is government control of land use, with no regard for private property rights.
The transformative changes in H.B. 1216 of 2008 are, especially, astonishing since some of its provisions are contrary to Georgia representative government. Its 33 pages and the “day jobs” of the co-sponsors of the bill prompted the above question. The co-sponsors have very different occupations. Representative Stephens is a pharmacist; Representative Vance Smith is in the business of construction and earthmoving. Representative Joe Wilkinson is a businessman; Representative Gene Maddox, a veterinarian; Representative John Lunsford, a real estate agent; and Representative Barbara Sims, is a business owner.
Comparing the bill with Agenda 21 made the connection easy. H.B. 1216 reeks of Agenda 21, which has not passed Congress and is not a treaty. So, its strategies are being implemented throughout the U.S. as “soft law.” It was endorsed by U.S. President G. H. W. Bush at the United Nations 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. After that initial endorsement, Agenda 21 really took root in President Clinton’s EO 12852, which created his President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) June 29, 1993.
Clinton’s PSCD published “Sustainable America, a New Consensus” with 150 U.N. Agenda 21 recommendations, 67 percent of which Clinton’s 1993 Secretary of Commence claimed could be implemented by using his rule-making authority. By 1997, 43 million acres were designated road-less areas, 1/3 of land in America was owned by government, ten percent by states.
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