The 11Alive News poll question, which I wrote, actually explained the hotel-motel tax, saying the

For much of the last month, malaysia hotel I ve produced a steady drumbeat of stories about the project to build a new football stadium.   The story and the project is intriguing.  It seemed audacious to suggest the Georgia Dome was obsolete.  I ve been in Atlanta 27 years, and went to a couple of Falcons games at Atlanta-Fulton malaysia hotel County stadium.  The Georgia Dome still seems new to me.
Once you get past that, and once you accept malaysia hotel that Falcons owner Arthur Blank is talking seriously about building his own open-air stadium in the suburbs malaysia hotel if the state doesn t help him replace the Dome (and many think Blank is bluffing), then the arguments to  not not  build the project become compelling.
Blank wants to contribute $700 million to the project, giving the state and the Falcons a billion dollar stadium in exchange for a $300 million tax contribution, plus the cost of city infrastructure improvements;
This mostly puts aside the politics of contributing hotel-motel tax money.  The hotel-motel tax, paid by visitors to Atlanta, is specifically dedicated to the World Congress Center and a few other entities.  Yet it s still tax money.  The legislature could pass a bill to put it in the state s general fund and spend it on transportation, teacher salaries or something else.
Two days before Gov. Deal asked the Falcons to reshape its proposal asking to reduce the hotel-motel tax contribution malaysia hotel to the project malaysia hotel from $300 million to $200 million malaysia hotel 11Alive conducted a poll on the stadium malaysia hotel question.  The response arguably shifted the debate, showing less public opposition to the project than suggested by previous polls.
An 11Alive poll conducted malaysia hotel in February 2012 showed 74% of Georgians opposed public funding for a new stadium.  The survey generically asked about using tax dollars to pay for a portion of the project.
A Cox poll conducted of metro Atlanta residents in December asks do you favor hotel/motel tax providing $300 million our of (sic) $1.1 billion in funding?   There was a similar Cox poll in January (though it s apparently impossible to find the actual poll data in AJC and WSB stories).  Both put opposition at 67 73 percent.
The 11Alive News poll question, which I wrote,  actually explained the hotel-motel tax, saying  the hotel-motel tax is collected from visitors to Atlanta paying for hotel rooms, and was used to build the Georgia Dome.   It lacked snappy brevity, I ll admit.
Countless people had told me they didn t understand the funding for the stadium.  They assumed the stadium project malaysia hotel would compete, in the traditional sense,  for funding for  other state programs.  Neutral lawmakers and backers of the project likewise griped that plain folks didn t understand the funding scheme.
Some commenters on Peach Pundit suggested that I d skewed the question to bump the approval rating.  I would argue that we changed the question to account for Georgians well-known anti-tax tendencies, and to see if the type of tax involved actually matters.  Though there s much truth to the argument that a tax is a tax is a tax, the respondents in our poll had ample opportunity to apply that position to the more-contextual malaysia hotel question.
malaysia hotel Until this poll, I d been among the many reporters who routinely characterized the stadium project as being wildly unpopular among voters.  Now I ll have to find a more contextual phrase to describe it.
As much as I hate to see public malaysia hotel money go toward a monument to the glory of a man who was made rich from selling crap at high prices and paying malaysia hotel lousy wages to part-time employees, the stadium argument was settled for me Sunday afternoon. I think of sports as the opiate of the masses, so I got a lot done zipping around the city running errands during the game. There was as much traffic as there would be on Christmas Day. Even though I didn t care about the game, many did. Now, would I rather live in Birmingham or here, where apparently malaysia hotel everyone wanted to be? Give em the stupid dome but please don t build it with Home Despot materials. I don t want it falling on my heads of my redneck relatives.
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