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Teach er Job Fair
www.waltoncountyschools.org
Walton County Public Schools is seeking
outstanding candidates for certified
positions. The Spring 2011 Teacher Job Fair
is a drop-in-format. Please bring multiple
resumes. F.vcry school in the Wjlton County
Public School System will be represented by
administrators with the authority’ to extend
job offers.
In order to be considered for hire, candidates
must have completed an on-line application.
Your application file must include three
reference forms, transcripts, GACE or
Praxis assessment scores, last two years'
annual evaluations and a current teaching
certificate. Provisional candidates should
provide verification of successful completion
of subject assessment.
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LOST AT THE CAPITOL
The Greek philosopher Diogenes was known
to walk around Athens with a lamp, telling
people that he was "looking for an honest
man." Diogenes would be looking tor quite
a while in some areas of the state Capitol,
where facts are bent, twisted and mutilated in
the pursuit of a political goal.
He might have paused, however, if he had
cast his lamp light on A. D. Frazier, who has
emerged as one of the most honest people
in Georgia politics. Frazier has had a distin
guished career in business that includes stints
as head of the Chicago Stock Exchange, chief
operating officer of the 1996 Olympic Games
and as a top executive with several companies
in the financial arena. He was a fitting
choice last year to lead a Tax Reform
Council created by the Legislature
to analyze the state's tax struc
ture and recommend changes to
improve it.
Frazier, along with the other
business leaders and economists
on the tax council, spent six
months holding hearings around
the state and reviewing the provi
sions of the state's unwieldy tax
code. They put together a set of recom
mendations that would give Georgia a flatter
tax system. One of the major recommendations
was that legislators eliminate the dozens of
special-interest tax breaks they have doled out
over the years. Legislative leaders had asked •
the Tax Reform Council to reduce the corporate
income tax rate and spread the sales tax over
a wide range of services. This lower income
tax, they said, wouid result in more businesses
moving to Georgia instead of to other states.
When lawmakers gathered in Athens, GA
last December for their Legislative Institute,
Frazier stood before them and said something
they didn't want to hear: the truth. While the
Tax Reform Council'^plan included the lower
corporate income tax rate they had requested,
Frazier told legislators it would have very
little impact on the state's ability to attract
new business.
"It's just not a factor," Frazier said of the
corporate tax. "Taxes are not among the top
five reasons why businesses move here."
Such things as public education, infrastruc
ture and quality of life are factors that figure
more heavily into corporate relocation deci
sions, he said.
Frazier reminded legislators that Georgia
currently is "49th in the country in terms of
state taxes per capita." If 48 other states
already impose heavier taxes than you do, how
much of a difference will it make to lower your
rates more?
Frazier also criticized the special-interest
tax breaks and exemptions that legislators
adopt with such frequency.
"Anytime you give someone a busi
ness tax credit, someone else is
paying the tax that business does
not pay," he said
It's important to remember
that Frazier is not some left
winger who wants to redistribute
all the wealth. He's an experi
enced business leader with an
impressive resume of achievements.
He knows how business people think,
because he is one.
Frazier's message fell on deaf ears. When
the current legislative session convened, most
of the recommendations from the Tax Reform
Council were quickly abandoned. Lawmakers
will vote instead on a tax bill that was hastily
drafted behind closed doors by the leadership
and then tossed out for legislators to adopt
without a lot of time to study it. In other
words, business as usual.
Frazier is said to be not very happy with
the way the Tax Reform Council's recommenda
tions were tossed into the trash. He tried to
give the political leaders an honest business
assessment of what the state needed to do,
but honesty is a quality not much in demand
these days.
Diogenes would sympathize with that.
Tom Crawford tcrawford@gareport.com
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