Murder Surge In Indianapolis - Tax Resistance Makes Impossible To Hire New Cops.

[TheMastersNemesis]

There is a murder surge in Indianapolis and the police department is undermanned. Because Indianans are against taxes it is almost impossible to increase the size of the police force. With that attitude if Indiana were burning down they would be laying off fire fighters before they would pay additional taxes.


Now that is demented.

[freshwest]

1. Nationwide problem. The Koch/ALEX agenda is winning in the states.

[spanone]

2. you get what you pay for....or not.

pay lower taxes, get less services.....what did they think was gonna happen?

i grew up in indy .....sad

[hfojvt]

3. according to this

they are planning both to hire more officers and to increase taxes.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2014/0530/Indianapolis-officials-scramble-to-avert-a-record-murder-rate-for-the-city-video

Ballard is proposing getting rid of the Homstead tax credit. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2013/08/19/trio-of-tax-fee-increases-get-differing-support-as-mayor-greg-ballard-presents-proposed-budget-to-council/2674963/

I am not sure I support such a move myself.

Although I might, reading the description http://www.indy.gov/eGov/County/Auditor/Services/Online/Pages/homestead.aspx

being capped at $45,000 and 25% it does seem to favor lower income home owners. But without any income requirement at all, it seems to give rebates to a lot of wealthy home owners too, and poorer people generally don't own a home anyway. Getting rid of it is probably less regressive than a sales tax increase.