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State Briefs
Perdue pledges to
end tax for seniors
ATLANTA (AP) - Gov.
Sonny Perdue on Wednesday
night made the first cam
paign pledge of his re-elec
tion bid, promising to elimi
nate the income tax for
Georgia’s senior citizens.
“If given the honor of a
second term, this is my first
promise to the people of
Georgia. We will completely
eliminate the state income
tax on retirement income
for seniors 65 and older,”
Perdue told 600 party loyal
ists who paid SSOO apiece
to attend the Georgia
Republican Party’s “2006
Victory Dinner” in Atlanta.
“By eliminating taxes on
their retirement income,
seniors will have more money
in their pockets to cover the
costs of prescription drugs
and health care or to spend
more time with their grand
children,” Perdue added.
The measure, which would
need to pass the Legislature,
would cost an estimated
$142 million a year. Perdue
administration officials
said the tax cut would
affect between 250,000 and
400,000 Georgians.
Perdue has said for some
time that he would like to
eventually eliminate all state
income tax on Georgia’s
seniors age 65 and up in an
effort to make the state more
attractive to retirees, many
of whom flock to neighbor
ing Florida where there is
no income tax. Seniors also
make up a politically power
ful voting bloc.
A spokesman for Perdue’s
Democratic opponent, Lt.
Gov. Mark Taylor, said
Perdue has failed to cut taxes
in his four years in office.
“When Mark Taylor is gov
ernor, he will not only cut
taxes for seniors, but every
Georgian,” Taylor spokes
man Rick Dent said.
Perdue used the speech
before party faithful to take
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a a few pointed jabs at his
opponent.
“It’s an election year and
I have an opponent that will
promise just about anything
to anyone hoping to win
votes,” Perdue said.
He accused Taylor of
remaining “stone, cold
silent” during the debate
over the state’s tough immi
gration law earlier this year.
Perdue has already taken
steps to lighten the tax bur
den on seniors.
In 2005 he signed into law
a measure that allows the
state’s seniors to exclude
$25,000 of their income from
state taxes. And Georgians
this November will vote
on a homestead exemption
measure approved earlier
this year that would exempt
those age 65 and older from
the state portion of the prop
erty tax.
Perdue’s first two years
in office were marked by
deep budget cuts as the
state’s economy struggled.
But Georgia’s economy had
shown signs of rebound
ing since then. Tax reve
nues have been soaring and
Perdue announced in July
that the state had surpassed
the expectations of money
managers and posted a SSBO
million surplus.
Ga. Democrats to
put on convention
ATLANTA (MNS) - The
state’s Democratic leaders
will gather here Saturday
for a new-type of convention
for them, one in the minor
ity. They’re hoping it won’t
become a pattern.
Mark Taylor will formally
accept the party’s nomina
tion for governor, and the
other statewide candidates
will each take to the stage
to accept theirs and to rally
the troops. About 1,000
delegates and guests are
expected at the state-owned
convention center near the
Atlanta airport.
Like most political con-
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ventions, Saturday’s gath
ering will adopt a legisla
tive platform that will be
promptly ignored after the
debates over its various pro
visions have died down that
morning. Unlike past years,
the chairman of the state
party won’t be selected.
Traditionally, the election
was a formality since the
governor or gubernatorial
nominee made the actual
selection.
Things are different now
that the Democrats no lon
ger control the governor’s
office. Several weeks ago,
the party’s executive com
mittee quietly changed the
bylaws to postpone the elec
tion of the chairman until
after year’s end rather than
installing a new team in the
midst of a general election.
Besides no new chairman,
the convention will also be
noted by another absence.
Cathy Cox won’t be there.
Cox, the secretary of state
who won 44 percent of the
vote against Taylor for the
party’s gubernatorial nomi
nation, will be vacationing
in Canada with her sister,
according to her spokesman,
Chris Riggall.
Man pleads guilty
for role in shooting
JONESBORO (AP) - A
man has pleaded guilty to
hindering the arrests of sus
pects who were wanted in a
shooting in which a 2-year
old boy was killed over an
income tax refund check.
Freddie Lamar Floyd, 39,
pleaded guilty Wednesday to
hindering the apprehension
of a criminal.
Floyd, who was initially
charged with a number of
other charges including
murder, burglary and aggra
vated assault, was sentenced
to two years in prison. But
he was given credit for one
year and five months already
served.
Xavier Miranda was fatal
ly shot Feb. 10, 2005, when
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an intruder burst into his
family’s apartment and
demanded a $1,717 income
tax refund check. Clayton
County police say the alleged
shooter was carrying out a
plot masterminded by the
woman who prepared the
Miranda family’s taxes.
Authorities said Floyd’s
live-in girlfriend is the
mother of Kearndric David
Smith, 21. Police say Smith
drove accused shooter
Torrin Demon Reese to
the Forest Park apartment
where William Miranda and
Chimere Rita Calloway lived
with their children.
Reese told police he ear
lier met at a restaurant
with Shakeila Danuaralle
Hampton, 34, and Michael
Anthony Hendrix, 33, to plan
the robbery of the couple’s
check. Hampton had helped
Calloway prepare her taxes
so she knew the amount of
her refund and when she
would get it, police said.
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Obituaries
AVEI- C. BRADDY
CENTERVILLE - Avel C. Braddy, 83, passed away
Tuesday. Services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the chapel
of McCullough Funeral Home with interment following in
Magnolia Park Cemetery. Go to www.mcculloughfh.com to
sign the Online Registry for the family.
BISHOP JOSEPH M. HOWELL
WARNER ROBINS - Bishop Joseph M. Howell, 73, passed
away Wednesday. Visitation will be today from 6-8 p.m. at
McCullough Funeral Home. Services will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday in the chapel of McCullough Funeral Home with
interment following in Magnolia Park Cemetery.
ELINOR L. HARDEN
WARNER ROBINS - Elinor L. Harden, 80, passed away
Tuesday. Harden was bom in Silas, Ala., to the late William
and Etta Vee Beard Polk. Survivors include her husband
Clyde Harden Jr. of Warner Robins. Sons: Harvey Lamar
Lee of Mobile, Ala., William Ronald Lee of Milledgeville and
Kenneth Lowell Lee of Jacksonville, Fla.
LYNN “TONY" JOHNS
WARNER ROBINS - Lynn “Tony” Johns, 54, passed away
Monday. Johns was born in Eastman to the late Austin and
Lila Holder Johns. Survivors include his brothers Kenneth
E. Johns of Warner Robins and Austin Johns Jr. of Perry.
The family will receive friends from 6-7 p.m. Friday at
Heritage Memorial Funeral Home.
September proclaimed
'College Savings Month'
Special to the Journal
ATLANTA - Governor
Sonny Perdue today
announced September as
“College Savings Month”
in Georgia, encouraging
Georgia parents to save for
their children’s college edu
cation. The Georgia Higher
Education Savings Plan
(GHESP), Georgia’s 529
college savings plan, allows
for tax-free withdrawals for
qualified education expens
es such as tuition, room
and board, books, fees and
required equipment.
“A college education is one
of the most important things
we can help provide our chil
dren to prepare them for suc
cess in life,” said Governor
Sonny Perdue. “By starting
to save and plan for col
lege today with the Georgia
Higher Education Savings
Plan, families can make col
lege more affordable tomor
row.”
Since being launched in
April 2002, Georgia’s college
savings plan has been widely
recognized as one of the best
college savings plans in the
country. Money magazine
recommended Georgia’s col
lege savings plan for state
residents, and the 529 plan
website, www.savingforcol
lege.com <http://www.sav
ingforcollege.com/> , contin
ues to give the Georgia pro
gram high marks. Consumer
advocate Clark Howard lists
the Georgia program on his
“Honor Roll” of 529 college
savings plans.
Assets in the GHESP have
grown significantly in the
last year from $299 million
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in September 2005 to S4OB
million today - a 36 per
cent increase. In the same
period, the total number of
GHESP accounts increased
by 18 percent, from 59,000
last September to a current
total of almost 70,000.
In August, Congress made
permanent the tax-free
treatment of withdraw
als from 529 plans. The
tax treatment for 529 plans
allows tax-free withdraw
als for qualified education
expenses such as tuition,
room and board, books, fees
and required equipment.
This tax treatment was set
to expire sifter 2010, but
was made permanent in
the recently passed Pension
Protection Act. Georgia’s
Congressional delegation led
the nation by sponsoring the
tax permanency legislation.
Both senators and a major
ity of Georgia’s representa
tives co-sponsored bills call
ing for permanency of the
current tax treatment for
529 plans.
“I want to recognize the
contributions of Senators
Chambliss and Isakson and
Georgia’s Congressional del
egation for achieving this
long-sought legislative goal,”
said Governor Perdue.
The GHESP provides sig
nificant tax advantages in
addition to tax-free with
drawals as an incentive to
save for college. An account
in the program can grow
on a tax-deferred basis, and
Georgia taxpayers may qual
ify for a state income tax
deduction of up to $2,000
per year, per account ben
eficiary.
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