Lake County Commissioner Roosevelt Allen, Jr. warns that the county will face the wrath of the state government because the Lake County Council followed taxpayers’ wishes and didn’t approve a Lake County income tax.

Now, government entities will have to re-evaluate their spending priorities and tighten their budgets instead of being able to levy an income tax that some estimated would have to rise to 4.5 percent of each Lake County workers’ income to keep up out-of-control local government spending trends, including lucrative contracts given to family members to take point-and-shoot photos for $25,000 every six-months and free gasoline fill-ups from county gas pumps.

Reports Bill Dolan of the Times:

The collapse of the proposed Lake County income tax last week should leave cities, towns and township government units at a loss for revenue next year.

“Now the cities and towns will come under the wrath of the state,” Lake County Commissioner Roosevelt Allen Jr., D-Gary, warned minutes after the County Council let the 1 percent income tax on county residents die by veto.

Allen said the county has more to be concerned about than all local government units — other than schools — being slapped with a property tax levy freeze in 2008.

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