Comments on: TIME TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

By: Mauri

Mauri — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:41:21 +0000

This isn’t tax relief just smoke and mirrors to silence the serfs. They just shifted more taxes to the lower, lower middle, and fixed income seniors brackets. A 17% increase in sales taxes is practically nothing to someone making $100,00 - 150,00 per year, but is a back breaker to the person making $20,00-30,00 per year. But if I have to choose I nominate the tax protesters.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:35:33 +0000

my vote is for the tax protesters, otherwise known as attention starved and tax nuts on other blogs. think about it. if people hadn’t taken to the streets, this never would have been addressed.

please, please consider adding jen wagner to your list of losers abdul. she’s not only nasty, she’s totally out of step.

By: Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Abdul Hakim-Shabazz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:05:07 +0000

David,

You are forgetting the state is picking a number of levies that your property taxes currently pay for. In Marion County alone that’s about a $65 million savings. Caps are only part of the equation.

By: DavidM

DavidM — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:34:37 +0000

I hate to tell you folks this but I do not see a great tax relief here in this property tax relief bill. If you look at the bill it caps your property tax at one percent of the asset value, which is the good thing about it. But, most people were at this mark or above in 2006, at least I was. They are saying that we will save about 30% from our property tax bill. If this is based on the 1% cap and 2007 bills that we received, That means I will be paying more then I did in 2006. Add the 1% sales tax, the business tax or 3% and the rental tax of 2%, the state will be taking in more money then it did before this saving bill. Prices will go up on rental and the price you pay for goods to offset their higher taxes. So where is the savings?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:14:32 +0000

Sorry, I mean “No credit for anyone.”

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:13:57 +0000

I credit for anyone. We are STILL burdened with the cumberson, expensive, township government. The person who elimiates this will get my vote and money!

By: Ad Valorem

Ad Valorem — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:17:23 +0000

Guv Daniels is the man.

By: Taxpayer 824512

Taxpayer 824512 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:16:36 +0000

I second the nomination for Peterson. Hard to top raising city-county taxes 65% immediately after property taxes go thru the roof, while denying protesters their say, as the city-council leader carries on like Huey Long Jr.

By: Vive La Revolution

Vive La Revolution — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:18:02 +0000

Melyssa Donaghy for getting that first tax protest on July 4 organized. She rode her bike for 10 hours to get the word out and it started the visible outrage. Mr. Rowe gets honorable mention credit for the “Black Rally”.

By: Taxpayer

Taxpayer — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:45:12 +0000

The way I read it, my “relief” will consist of — eventually — an increase in my property taxes of just 80% instead of the 110% for which I was originally billed in July. That, of course, will happen by 2010, IF the next legislature hasn’t figured out a way to slice and dice it even more. Any bets on a group of legislators NOT figuring out a way to do that?

Oh, and don’t forget to factor in that my “relief” also includes a sales tax increase and a variety of projects NOT subject to referenda, plus the fact that in the unlikely event the tortuous process of amending the Constitution to include the caps actually takes place, it will be years down the road. There are senior citizens who can’t wait that long. We’ve been given an appetizer, but it’s anybody’s guess whether the meal will ever be served.