April Fools

“It is by far the largest tax increase in the history of the state, … It is blatantly unconstitutional and it still cripples local government and school.”

Rep. Craig Fry (D-Mishawaka)

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=8018864&ClientType=Printable

Nice to see a little blunt honesty coming out of the Statehouse. But thanks to the bi-partisan coalition of spendaholic legislators governing Indiana, (and the judge who helped create the current property tax disaster) your Sales Tax bill goes up 16.7% today. Indiana now has one of the highest sales tax rates in the nation - higher than the surrounding states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois.

Looks like the joke is once again on Hoosier Taxpayers. Morton Marcus called it exactly right  - ”the perfect election-year tax increase.”

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080330/NEWS05/80330001/1003/BUSINESS  

“People have no idea how much more in sales taxes they’re going to pay,” he said. “They don’t keep their receipts to see how much they paid compared to how much less they will pay in property taxes. It’s a shell game” 

Keep voting for more of the same, keep getting more of the same. 

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