With Braun expected at a town hall Wednesday at the Tippecanoe Co. Fairgrounds, his property tax bill remains a moving target. Plus, how Adriana Harmeyer did in ‘Jeopardy’ Tournament of Champions
My experience is that Indiana is a pretty low-tax state. We rank #10 overall. The services we receive in return for taxes in Tippecanoe County/Lafayette are pretty good and efficient (except when they hire one of those companies to hack away at the trees near power lines). I'd pay 0.25% more in sales tax if it was dedicated to raising teachers' salaries. Or a special 0.15% property tax increase for the same purpose. And that's free money, because we don't have children, so we don't use our contribution. I'm missing the report/data on the counties that are using their budgets unwisely. Which ones have been identified? What are the citizen satisfaction surveys that have been used to support the current proposed legislation? I feel like I'm missing pieces of the puzzle to understand the urgency. The "prove it" phrase seems a bit unamerican. You are guilty until you prove yourself innocent? Politicians should have a reasonable portion of their favorite dessert before proposing legislation. Life is much better, less complicated, and tastier than they promote.
Indiana collects about $40 billion in taxes (2022), including $8.6 billion in property tax and $10.4 billion in sales tax, national ranking 37th and 20th respectively. I get that R's do not like big budget surpluses. Why not knock down our rather high sales tax? Seems easier to implement and less impact on essential local services.
MAGAt Mike Braun's loins are quivering to bring all deep-South Confederate-loving hate here to Hoosierland.
Perhaps he's trying to relive those "fun" times of 1920's Indiana KKK legacy???
As a pol wanting to press flesh, MAGAt Mike should drop in on the home near the T3ipmont substation on N 50 West that continually flies a Confederate battle flag.
So nostalgically MAGA - honoring 19th-century traitors of America, a mile away from the Indiana Civil War Cemetery on Soldier's Home Road.
MAGAt Mike Braun is a reincarnation of Mannequin Mike Mike Pence...SAD!!!
Will be only a matter of time before MAGAt Mike goes full frontal Trump a la Pence.
"A week ago, Braun responded to concerns from local schools and cities by questioning whether they had been running things efficiently, saying: “Almost all of them are saying that they can’t do without what they’re having now. I would say: Prove it.”" And how would you like, say, the school corporations to do that? Fail? Cut more staff so that classrooms are unsustainably full, and teachers have a harder time doing their jobs? But of course, cut the taxes in a state that has very low taxes already, and once again hurt public education. Yeah, that will attract more highly-educated people. NOT.
My experience is that Indiana is a pretty low-tax state. We rank #10 overall. The services we receive in return for taxes in Tippecanoe County/Lafayette are pretty good and efficient (except when they hire one of those companies to hack away at the trees near power lines). I'd pay 0.25% more in sales tax if it was dedicated to raising teachers' salaries. Or a special 0.15% property tax increase for the same purpose. And that's free money, because we don't have children, so we don't use our contribution. I'm missing the report/data on the counties that are using their budgets unwisely. Which ones have been identified? What are the citizen satisfaction surveys that have been used to support the current proposed legislation? I feel like I'm missing pieces of the puzzle to understand the urgency. The "prove it" phrase seems a bit unamerican. You are guilty until you prove yourself innocent? Politicians should have a reasonable portion of their favorite dessert before proposing legislation. Life is much better, less complicated, and tastier than they promote.
Indiana collects about $40 billion in taxes (2022), including $8.6 billion in property tax and $10.4 billion in sales tax, national ranking 37th and 20th respectively. I get that R's do not like big budget surpluses. Why not knock down our rather high sales tax? Seems easier to implement and less impact on essential local services.
If they have big budget surpluses again, why not FULLY support our public schools??
MAGAt Mike Braun's loins are quivering to bring all deep-South Confederate-loving hate here to Hoosierland.
Perhaps he's trying to relive those "fun" times of 1920's Indiana KKK legacy???
As a pol wanting to press flesh, MAGAt Mike should drop in on the home near the T3ipmont substation on N 50 West that continually flies a Confederate battle flag.
So nostalgically MAGA - honoring 19th-century traitors of America, a mile away from the Indiana Civil War Cemetery on Soldier's Home Road.
MAGAt Mike Braun is a reincarnation of Mannequin Mike Mike Pence...SAD!!!
Will be only a matter of time before MAGAt Mike goes full frontal Trump a la Pence.
"A week ago, Braun responded to concerns from local schools and cities by questioning whether they had been running things efficiently, saying: “Almost all of them are saying that they can’t do without what they’re having now. I would say: Prove it.”" And how would you like, say, the school corporations to do that? Fail? Cut more staff so that classrooms are unsustainably full, and teachers have a harder time doing their jobs? But of course, cut the taxes in a state that has very low taxes already, and once again hurt public education. Yeah, that will attract more highly-educated people. NOT.