State Sen. Luke Kenley many in NWI Support Your Stand

State Senator Luke Kenley, Chairman of the Senate Tax Committe, should know that there are many citizens of NWI who support his stand on holding the line on the 2 percent property tax cap.  The citizens of NWI support not changing the law the will extend this cap to rental property and then to industrial property.

The only county in Indiana that this has real consequances for is Lake County.  For example, Lake County is expected to loose $233 million if this were to fully take effect; the next closest county is Marion, which is twice the population size and provides twice the service, will only loose $58 million.  The county next to Lake, Porter, is only projected to loose about $400,000.  There is nothing unique about Lake County to explain this disparity except for incompetence and corruption on the part of most public officials.

The corruption is obvious from the work of the U. S. Attorney Van Bokklen.  Given the number of indictments, it would indicate that corruption is the norm in Lake County not the exception.  Since the Democratic Party is in charge of Lake County, it is the Lake County Democratic Party that is the responsible corrupt enterprise.  One needs to remember that not being indicted does not mean that you are not corrupt.

Incompetence is indicated by the condition where no taxing unit in Lake County has reduced or held its budget growth to zero during the past five years.  This was also during a time of increased income to municipalities and the county government from gambling revenues.  Performance on the part of elected officials has been truly incompetent. 

The reality is that they do no know what to do except raise more taxes.  This has been the continuous mantra of all, with the sole exception of County Commissioner Fran DuPey.  Commissioner DuPey and State Representative Dobis have both said they will not support any change to the property tax cap until there is significant movement on reducing the cost of government in Lake County.

All the government entities in Lake County have increased their budget and have continued with absolutely no changes whatsoever.  Everything has only been lip service; no real action.  Since the main reason is corruption and not knowing what to do, the only way to bring about change is the forced "conversion" of the property tax cap.

So Senator Kenley remember that you have support here in NWI for holding these no-nothing and corrupt NWI comical politicians' feet to the fire.

Comments

[Yourajoke Maurice]

Let me get this straight, now you are holding Fran Dupey up a an elected official to model after? She's been a joke of an elected official for the passed 20 years, and Maurice is holding her up as a model for other elected officials!!! Ha.

She's being investigated by the FBI Einstein for SRI. But then again, after the Grand Jury comes back with an indictment against Mayor Tom (boy they are taking their time), you will be vindicated. BTW, what Grand Jury would deliberate for soo long? Must be a complicated case.

Merry Xmas Einstein... or Chanuka... whatever.