The following letter to the editor was in today's Post-Tribune Newspaper.
Answer to Tax Mess is Less Government
Well, Lake County, here we go again. Since people really don't care that their taxes are high, you're going to get hit again.
Now that we have tapped out on property taxes, we are going to allow an income tax.
Just when fairness was becoming reality, the wealthier communities will be pitching in to support the neglected northern communities. Our taxes aren't out of control. Our spending is in the Twilight Zone.
We keep adding layers of government, but the citizens see fewer services. We blame industry for paying less, but we never ask the politicians to spend less.
Apathy increases with the electorate and, in return, our taxes increase. We will continue to be a community of haves and have-nots because the have-nots continue to elect the same folks who aren't helping the situation.
The local media also is to blame as they continue to endorse the same people who created this mess.
People claim I'm a blowhard, but this blowhard debated the issues that needed to be discussed: less school spending, more government consolidation and more qualified individuals running for office.
I'd like to see an article on the number of college graduates who happen to be politicians, so we can see if we have intelligent enough people to find solutions for our serious problems.
Real leaders make difficult decisions; they don't just watch our communities crumble.
You need only look as far Highland and Griffith to see we are taxed too much. They are asking the hard questions.
Chris Morrow, Dyer
The electorate with the support of the most "go along" newspapers in the country, The Post-Tribune and the Hammond Times, will continue to support the thieves and charlatans we have fondly come to call our local politicians. You don't see one hard hitting and decisive editorial from either newspaper. One is so much in the pocket of the local Democratic Party that it sees no-evil, hears no-evil, and speaks no-evil when the "Party" is involved. The other newspaper is so far in bed with the economic interests of the western part of Lake County that the newspaper, like swallowing pablum, is willing to blatantly and uncritically repeat lies told by the local politicians.
No matter how poorly or incompetently our local politicians perform, they always get re-elected. The sad fact is, the enlightened citizenry of Northern Lake County will continue to vote these "politicians" into office and this means that Lake County will continue on its downward trend.
For example, at last count, no net new businesses have been created in Lake County in over ten years. Yet no answers are demanded and none are given.
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