Hole Tax: The people's right to golf. (Citings).LET's SAY YOU run a business. Demand is down 20 percent from 1997 to 2000, throwing you $3.2 million in the hole. What do you do? If you're a private enterprise, you fail, because no one wants to supply the capital to subsidize your losses. If you're the state of Georgia, which owns seven golf courses, you dip into dip into Verb 1. to draw upon: he dipped into his savings 2. to read passages at random from (a book or journal) Verb 1. the taxpayer kitty for $10 million to build two more sets of links. At one time, Georgia considered getting Out of the golf course business. Former Gov. Zell Miller Zell Bryan Miller (born February 24, 1932) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. Elected as a Democrat, Miller served as Mayor of Young Harris, Georgia, state representative, Lieutenant Governor from 1975 to 1990, Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as , a Democrat, created a privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned commission in 1995, which brought some change. Two state-run golf courses were dispatched to the private sector and are doing well. Seven others merely contracted out maintenance, which resulted in higher costs, higher green fees, fewer golfers, and larger losses. So with Miller now away in the U.S. Senate, state politicians are declaring privatization a failure and malting plans to expand into more unprofitable ventures. "Some people say it's a waste of money," former Lt. Governor Pierre Howard Pierre Howard (born February 3 1943) was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia and was elected to two terms (1990 and 1994). Howard focused on critical issues concerning Georgia families throughout his political career (i.e. told The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. As a board member of the state's Department of Natural Resources Many sub-national governments have a Department of Natural Resources or similarly-named organization:
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