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Feb
15
Indiana Tea Party Tax Protest
Filed Under Lake County, property tax crisis, property tax reform, tax revolt, taxes
Spotted at Team Hammond Taxpayers:
From the graphic above:
Indiana Tea Party Tax Revolt! Sunday, March 1st, 2008 at 1 p.m. CST. Lake County Government Center.
Bring your tax assessments or a facsimile to put in the giant tea bag to be dunked in the pond.
A national and local media event. Bring your protest signs.
Team Hammond writes about scare tactics being used to convince taxpayers higher taxes are the only solution:
Our local elected officials must be working overtime trying to convince the citizens that property tax reform is bad for us. They would have you believe with their scare tactics that we will have no fire or police protection, and people will die! Let’s put a guilt trip on the homeowners for wanting to keep their homes!
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7 Responses to “Indiana Tea Party Tax Protest”
I love it. Marion County is an inspiration. Lake County has a lot of momentum against it, but we CAN lower taxes and regain freedom.
Hi Chase,
Thanks for stopping by!
I hope the taxpayers are able to make a difference. We need to figure out a solution to the tax problem that Lake County faces since thousands and thousands of home end up facing tax sale each year.
When a significant number of voters can’t pay their property taxes that should be a signal to the elected officials that they need to figure out a way to conserve and reduce, instead of continuing on their present course.
Only about 100 people showed up. Shows you the apathy around here!
Hi Dave,
I assume most people feel that they can’t fight the powers that be anymore. It’s too bad that politics as usual has worn down people so much that they’ve given up.
Dear Sir,
My wife and I are proud homeowners in unincorporated calumet township.We both work very hard and struggle to pay our bills. Please let us know how we can fight these unjust and unfair property taxes in Lake County Ind.
Thank you,
Bob Clabaugh
Hi Bob,
The key thing is to make sure to know how the candidates are going to vote on taxation issues (and have voted in the past) and to make sure all of your friends and neighbors know.
The simplest solution, use the system and its’ rules and regulations, to sink the system. It is our right to question any taxes placed upon us, and appeal if we feel the answers are not as they should be. It is clear in state and federal laws,this right is a given, and is stressed in these laws. It is this very right our country was founded upon. As the adult versions of the playground bully, politicians have warped the process, with intimidation, condemnation of those who protest, increasing the taxes on those brave few who do ask questions, auditing those who protest too much,creating fear of the process of government itself. Instead of these few being made examples of, thereby stopping any true appeals, what if EVERY citizen, of EVERY county, were to exercise their right to appeal, to the fullest extent, at the first instance ,when the new assessments are released. It is not a protest, it is not an illegal act, it is each and every citizen,taking advantage of their legal rights under state tax laws, exercising those rights to the full extent they are allowed by law. Thereby forcing those in the system to address these citizens, as PUBLIC SERVANTS, to the full extent each citizen is entitled to, under these laws, as written in their job descriptions. We want answers, they have to give them to us. They manipulate to be sure few use these rights, we as taxpayers show all involved that the few cannot rule the many, overlooking common sense, decency, civility, and the laws themselves. By filing form 130,(downloadable online),with the county assessor,within 45 days, the timeclock is punched for each taxpayer filing, they cannot then deny any knowledge, put it off indefinitely, pawn if off to the township assessors. There are set timelines, they are on the clock to deal with each and every person in a set manner. The volume would bury the system. For good, forcing a fix, an apology, and knowing then what those being bullied can do when having enough of it all ,to the system itself,with all acting as one,them giving assurance to all involved that the reasonable solutions they then enact, will remain in place for good. So simple,just getting all to see the beauty and ease of the solution, and enacting it in enough numbers to make it work. Other additional informational requests, if needed, can be implemented, in person at all government windows, on the phone, to all government phone lines, with request for numerous forms of information, those requests to be in writing, sent to each asking’s home address. All payments can be made at each office, using dollar bills, coins, the proverbial old lady with the change purse, times 20000, at each place of payment. As in the movie Network, we are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more. Time to take the playground back for all. If each of us files just one paper, one time, it will be fixed properly, for good. Symbolic gestures are games, actually use papers that will get results.