This explainer shows the math: counties lose money on every person they jail now, and SJR25 guarantees more people will be jailed, longer stays, and no new state funding. It’s a stealth tax hike and budget crisis disguised as a tough-on-crime talking point. Failing counties will mean more cuts
This explainer shows the math: counties lose money on every person they jail now, and SJR25 guarantees more people will be jailed, longer stays, and no new state funding. It’s a stealth tax hike and budget crisis disguised as a tough-on-crime talking point. Failing counties will mean more cuts
3. Tennessee Bail Amendment That Explodes County Budgets
SJR25 massively expands who can be jailed w/o bail, but the state pays nothing for the surge in pretrial detainees. Counties, already underwater on jail costs, are left holding the bill in the name of “public safety.”
📺 youtu.be/RLJFv2u6vNI
3. Tennessee Bail Amendment That Explodes County Budgets
SJR25 massively expands who can be jailed w/o bail, but the state pays nothing for the surge in pretrial detainees. Counties, already underwater on jail costs, are left holding the bill in the name of “public safety.”
📺 youtu.be/RLJFv2u6vNI
The video breaks down “fiscal apartheid”: distressed counties forced to hike local property taxes sky-high just to keep roads, schools, and 911 services alive, while corporate property wealth behind the “wealth fence” is permanently shielded from statewide responsibility. #GOPServesBillionaires
The video breaks down “fiscal apartheid”: distressed counties forced to hike local property taxes sky-high just to keep roads, schools, and 911 services alive, while corporate property wealth behind the “wealth fence” is permanently shielded from statewide responsibility. #GOPServesBillionaires
2.Tennessee’s Tax Ban Is a Time Bomb
This amendment bans state property tax that hasn’t existed since 1949,but it quietly removes a crucial crisis tool. When next recession hits & sales taxes crash, rural counties get gutted while wealthy areas & big landholders are protected youtu.be/A8gVv3gZyzI
2.Tennessee’s Tax Ban Is a Time Bomb
This amendment bans state property tax that hasn’t existed since 1949,but it quietly removes a crucial crisis tool. When next recession hits & sales taxes crash, rural counties get gutted while wealthy areas & big landholders are protected youtu.be/A8gVv3gZyzI
Instead of regular laws that elected leaders can revise, these changes are built to be almost impossible to reverse. The explainer walks through the constitutional lock-in strategy step by step so Tennesseans can see how today’s vote shapes the next 30 years. The wealthy will rule from the grave.
Instead of regular laws that elected leaders can revise, these changes are built to be almost impossible to reverse. The explainer walks through the constitutional lock-in strategy step by step so Tennesseans can see how today’s vote shapes the next 30 years. The wealthy will rule from the grave.
1. The Plan to Rewrite Tennessee Forever
This explainer shows how four “common sense” amendments form a single machine: fiscal trap, expanded incarceration, weaker transparency, and deregulation locked into the Constitution so future voters can’t easily undo them.
📺 youtu.be/lyo6gRzyxyM
1. The Plan to Rewrite Tennessee Forever
This explainer shows how four “common sense” amendments form a single machine: fiscal trap, expanded incarceration, weaker transparency, and deregulation locked into the Constitution so future voters can’t easily undo them.
📺 youtu.be/lyo6gRzyxyM