It didn’t receive much attention in the state’s media outlets, but it’s worth noting that the T-SPLOST sales tax campaign saw a major change in the framing of the most basic political question of all: Should taxes ever be increased? There was once a time when people could agree that, while taxes were an unpopular thing, you sometimes had to raise them to pay for services that a state or community needs. One of the signature achievements of Herman Talmadge's years as governor during the 1950s was the enactment of a 3 percent sales tax that paid for the construction of schools across the state.