Indiana

I Have Now Officially Seen It All

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

There are a lot of things in this world which I never thought I would see.

Barack Obama as President.  O. J. Simpson in jail.  And Republican State Senator Mike Young of Indianapolis vote to raise taxes on Marion County residents, but that’s pretty much what he did today in the Senate Local Government Committee.

The Committee voted 6-5 to approve SB 482, which consolidates the Marion County Township fire departments, if they don’t opt out by a super-majority vote (5 of the 7 township advisory board members) this fall.

Young voted against the measure and by doing so voted for a defacto tax increase.

You see the property tax caps kick in fully in 2010 and since the township governments have not come up with a plan to address how they will provide fire service in an age of tax caps, falling home prices and increased foreclosures, it’s only logical to assume they will have to go to the state and ask the tax caps be lifted, thus in fact a tax increase.

I never thought I’d live to see the day that Republican Mike Young would do something like that.

I guess it is true what they say, if you stay in politics long enough, you will eventually see just about everything.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).