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May 14, 2025 • Blog

‘Obscene Increase’: Savannah schools’ spending priorities seem lopsided

By Chris Butler

The Savannah-Chatham County School System is Georgia’s 10th largest, and over time its yearly budgets have increased… and so have the number of administrators.

April 22, 2025 • Blog

Georgia’s economy is strong, but others are getting stronger

By Kyle Wingfield

For years, Georgia has steadily improved in many ways. But other states are improving even faster.

April 7, 2025 • Commentary

Southern tax reckoning: Georgia risks falling behind

By Kyle Wingfield

Georgia is used to sitting at the top of the regional heap. But when you occupy that perch, others try to dethrone you.

April 3, 2025 • Commentary

What the 2025 legislative session means for Georgia taxpayers

By J. Thomas Perdue

No matter which issues dominate the headlines during a legislative session, tax policy is always on the table under the Gold Dome.

February 19, 2025 • Blog

Staying the course is the wise thing to do

By Kyle Wingfield

The state’s recent course of budgeting modestly and gradually trimming tax rates to avoid overcharging taxpayers has been working.

February 12, 2025 • Commentary

Georgia school districts prepare to block property tax relief while holding billions in reserves

By Kyle Wingfield

Cumulatively, Georgia’s 180 city and county school districts have more than doubled their reserves to a staggering $6.5 billion.

February 6, 2025 • Blog

Clarke County voters beg school board to not opt out of floating homestead exemption

By Chris Butler

More than 60% of voters in Clarke County said yes last fall to Georgia’s new floating homestead exemption, but the school board plans to opt out.

January 15, 2025 • Blog

Georgia schools spent billions in COVID-19 relief dollars, but on what, exactly?

By Chris Butler

Finding the information about who got what and at what cost is one thing, but trying to understand what it actually was is another thing.

January 9, 2025 • Commentary

Preparing for the 2025 Georgia legislative session

By J. Thomas Perdue

The new year brings a new legislative session and a new crop of issues to be debated in the General Assembly over the next three months.

December 19, 2024 • Blog

11 biggest stories of 2024

By Brett Kittredge

This year, Georgia Public Policy Foundation once again had our biggest year to date in terms of content produced and consumed.

December 4, 2024 • Commentary

Georgia’s tax climate ranked 26th nationally

By Kyle Wingfield

Each year, the Tax Foundation rates the states based on their tax codes. In the latest edition of its rankings, Georgia came in 26th.

October 30, 2024 • Commentary

Georgia has the opportunity for big-ticket tax reform

By Kyle Wingfield

State leaders have spent tax dollars cautiously, and they’ve accumulated quite the nest egg on behalf of the taxpayers.

October 23, 2024 • Blog

Georgia’s record surplus presents an opportunity for taxpayer relief

By Athan Clark

Georgia's record surplus creates an opportunity to return money to the taxpayers who made this possible.

October 17, 2024 • Blog

What is Amendment 1?

By Brett Kittredge

Georgians will vote on a ballot initiative designed to bring property tax relief. We look at the referendum and its implications.

October 17, 2024 • Commentary

The implications of Amendment 1

By Kyle Wingfield

What would be the implications of adopting Amendment 1, a measure adopted by the legislature to provide property tax relief?

October 17, 2024 • Commentary

Would Amendment 1 bring property tax relief?

By Chris Denson

Voters this year will see a statewide ballot referendum on property taxes. Will it bring relief?

October 3, 2024 • Commentary

Why a guide to the issues?

By Kyle Wingfield

The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has released its 2024 “Guide to the Issues.”

August 15, 2024 • Commentary

How did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act simplify the tax code?

By Alex Muresianu

If the individual provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire at the end of next year, tax filing will get more complicated for millions of Americans.

June 26, 2024 • Commentary

Trump and Biden should address our national debt

By Kyle Wingfield

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump hold their first presidential debate in Atlanta this week.

April 25, 2024 • Commentary

Is this Georgia fee still constitutional?

By Arthur C. Nelson

Until recently, impact fees were believed to be immune from attacks under the Takings Clause of the United States Constitution. What has changed?

April 22, 2024 • Commentary

Georgia should seize the opportunity for deeper tax cuts

By Kyle Wingfield

Lawmakers continue to cut, albeit in a manner befitting the third word in the state’s motto: Wisdom, Justice, Moderation.

April 4, 2024 • Commentary

What happened with property tax reform this year?

By Chris Denson

This truly seemed like one of those legislative sessions when everything was aligned for meaningful property tax reform.

February 7, 2024 • Commentary

Prudent tax reforms are more than welcome

By Kyle Wingfield

Is there any relief in sight to growing property tax bills?

January 25, 2024 • Commentary

Will the Georgia legislature cap property tax increases?

By Chris Denson

Perhaps no public policy debate raises the ire of Georgians quite like property taxes.

January 10, 2024 • Blog

Braves departure from Mississippi was predictable

By Brett Kittredge

The Braves announced this week that the Double-A affiliate will be moving from Pearl, Mississippi to Columbus, Georgia.

January 10, 2024 • Blog

This “could” be a big legislative session

By Kyle Wingfield

While every session of the General Assembly – like every election – is billed as consequential, this time the hype could be right.

December 27, 2023 • Blog

11 biggest stories of 2023

By Brett Kittredge

As we prepare to welcome in a new year, here is a review of our most read and most shared stories of 2023.

December 6, 2023 • Commentary

Time to redraw our economic future

By Kyle Wingfield

States across the nation have been moving aggressively to position themselves as business-friendly through lower tax rates. Georgia needs to join them.

December 5, 2023 • Blog

‘Once in a lifetime’ opportunity

By Brett Kittredge

Georgia has a rare opportunity for significant tax reforms that will benefit all Georgians.

October 26, 2023 • Blog

11 spooky policy ideas to avoid

By Brett Kittredge

Here are 11 spooky policy ideas we should all run from like a man in a mask is chasing us.