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Early voting started off with a bang in Greenville County Monday. By far, the longest measure on the ballot addresses a sales tax and dozens of roads within the county.The tax has been called a few things: a penny sales tax; a one-percent sales tax. If it passes, it will impact everything from main thoroughfares to subdivision streets. Greenville County voters can decide whether to pass this tax, which would add an extra penny on every dollar spent within the county except on things like groceries, medicine, rent/mortgage, utilities, and gas. Greenville County already has a six-percent sales tax. Passing this would bring it to seven percent. The ballot measure clarifies the increase would only go to improving listed roads and would be collected for up to the next eight years.The vote to put it on the ballot had some bumps in the road. “We didn’t get a thorough discussion,” said Rick Bradley, Greenville County’s District 26 Councilman. “We didn’t take the time to discuss a $1.8 billion project.”The tax drove controversy on Greenville’s County Council. They voted to put it on the ballot, 8-4.”The better roads we have, the easier it is to create industry, create economic growth jobs,” said Ennis Fant, Sr., District 25’s Greenville County Councilman.One group said fixing roads this way would be an unnecessary weight on your wallet. “The majority of the roads are state roads that are going to be paved,” said Bradley. “We pay a gasoline tax for that. So, I’m not in favor of just throwing more money at a project that we already have money.”Another group says using this to fill potholes now would spread responsibility to other pocketbooks. “Why is it fair that only people who live in Greenville County, who has a car registered in Greenville County, bear the brunt of all the roads in Greenville County,” Fant asked. “Why not let people who come to Greenville to work here, who come to visit, who come to shop, who come to eat, who come to go to the movies, let everybody who comes to Greenville participate in paving our roads.”The decision is now in the hands of the driver who live and vote within the county.The ballot measure states this will impact more than 1,400 roads projects, the sheer number of which can’t be covered by the 14 million a year we’re taxed for roads.