Indiana

Do These People Get It?

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Proponents of township government may be basking the glow of “victories” at the Statehouse Wednesday they can’t be so oblivious as to deny the inevitable?

1. Can they deny property tax caps are coming?
2. Can they deny declining property values that will negatively impact their tax base?
3. Can they deny the bad economy will likely impact requests for poor relief and eat through their savings?
4. Can they deny even for a moment that if Mitch Daniels doesn’t get government reform he will use his executive authority to make their lives as difficult as possible through the Department of Local Government and Finance?

I feel like John Connor in the Terminator trying to tell these people what’s coming but they won’t listen. Township government may not be dead, but by the time the Governor is done with them, they’ll wish they were.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).