09/03/2026
KEISHA BOTTOMS IS EITHER TOO IGNORANT TO UNDERSTAND HER OWN PLAN OR SHE IS LYING TO YOUR FACE
Keisha Lance Bottoms calls this an “affordability plan.”
That is a flat-out lie.
It is an economically illiterate, socialist political scam that does almost nothing for the people she claims to help, threatens critical local revenue and leaves working Georgians paying the bill.
Let’s expose every rotten piece of it.
Georgia already charges ZERO state sales tax on groceries. Keisha is not cutting that tax because it does not exist.
Her big idea is to ask the Legislature to let local governments stop collecting their grocery taxes. Then she must convince 159 counties and their cities to voluntarily give up money used for schools, roads, police, fire departments and property tax relief.
She has no power to make them do it, and most local governments cannot afford to go along with it.
That means her entire plan depends upon hundreds of other elected officials accepting a deal that could punch holes in their budgets.
That is not leadership. It is Keisha holding a press conference and assigning the actual work and consequences to somebody else.
Then comes her $250 million gimmick.
Georgia’s own numbers indicate local grocery taxes generate around $700 million a year, likely more today. Keisha’s $250 million would not come close to replacing that revenue, and her fund lasts for only one year.
After that, local governments would have four choices: cut services, raise property taxes, create another tax or restore the grocery tax.
And where does Keisha get the $250 million?
From taxpayers.
She takes money out of your state pocket, runs it through Atlanta, gives part of it back locally and lies to your face by calling it a tax cut.
That is not affordability. It is a socialist shell game designed for voters who never follow the money.
The ugliest part is how she uses poor Georgians as political props.
SNAP and WIC grocery purchases are already exempt from state and local sales taxes. Many of the lowest-income families she claims this plan will help could save little or nothing on purchases covered by those benefits.
Keisha is promising them relief from a tax they are not paying.
Either she did not know that, which makes her shockingly ignorant, or she knew it and said it anyway, which makes her a liar.
Take your pick. Neither one belongs in the Governor’s Office.
Her plan does nothing to lower the actual price of groceries. Nothing for fertilizer. Nothing for seed. Nothing for diesel. Nothing for farm equipment. Nothing for labor, trucking, insurance, interest or electricity.
Georgia farmers are fighting to survive, and Keisha offers them absolutely nothing in this grocery plan.
She ignores the farmer who grows the food, the trucker who hauls it and the small business that sells it. Then she poses inside a grocery store and pretends she understands why prices are high.
She does not have a clue.
Her plan does nothing to lower income taxes, payroll costs, insurance premiums, utility bills, borrowing costs or regulations for small businesses. They get no meaningful economic relief from this proposal. They merely get the privilege of helping fund her $250 million political stunt.
The middle class gets the worst deal of all.
Working families would fund Keisha’s state bailout, continue paying income and property taxes, then risk higher local taxes when her temporary money disappears.
She is not helping the middle class. She is gutting them to finance another government redistribution scheme.
That is what socialism does. It punishes work, production, savings and success. It takes from the people who earn and gives politicians the power to decide who receives the money.
Rick Jackson is the complete opposite.
Rick built a major Georgia business, created jobs, signed paychecks and balanced budgets. He understands economics because he has lived in the real world where bad decisions cost money and excuses do not pay the bills.
Rick wants to cut Georgia’s income tax in half, eliminate state taxes on residential electricity and natural gas, provide emergency gas-tax relief, stop runaway property assessments and cut waste from state government.
Rick wants Georgians to keep more of the money they earn. Keisha wants government to take it, redistribute it and return a few dollars with her name attached.
Rick understands that farmers, workers and businesses create prosperity. Keisha thinks politicians create prosperity by spending somebody else’s money.
We have already watched her fail under pressure.
Atlanta burned on Keisha Bottoms’ watch in 2020. Businesses were looted, storefronts were destroyed, police vehicles were set on fire and lawlessness took control of parts of the city.
Now she wants control of the entire State of Georgia and a budget of roughly $40 billion.
She could not protect Atlanta, cannot explain basic tax policy and cannot produce an affordability plan that survives five minutes of honest examination.
Keisha Bottoms is economically inept, politically dishonest and morally corrupt. She is exploiting struggling families, ignoring farmers and small businesses, threatening local services and hiding the cost from the middle class.
This is not merely a bad plan.
It is proof that Keisha Lance Bottoms is completely unqualified to govern Georgia.
