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Dec
28
Time For A COIT Revolution?
Filed Under COIT, Elsie Franklin, Income Tax, Lake County Council, Ted Bilski, Thomas O'Donnell, Will Smith Jr, government spending, tax revolt, taxes | Leave a Comment
Professor Maurice Eisenstein calls on Lake County’s taxpayers to picket their elected officials if they support the imposition of a new Lake County income tax — a tax that isn’t guaranteed to stay at only 1 percent and could rise even more to keep up with the government’s insatiable spending habits.
There are two things all the citizens of Lake County must to do to keep our honor as Americans. First, attend todays (12/28/07) meeting of the Lake County Council (at 4:00 p.m.) and stop them from overriding the veto of the Lake County Commissioners (by any means). If we have over a thousand people show up, that will tell them what we think and what we are about to do (say, take away their paycheck at the next election), it will actually scare them and they will have to take more hormones.
Second, if they get away with voting for the income tax, start picketing their homes, their work, and everywhere they go, include their supporters, such as the Mayors of the three northern cities. In that process, make sure that no one is re-elected. Show the Lake County Democratic Party that this is a Party vote and if the Party votes for it, you as a voter, and a true American, will make the Party pay in Lake County in the next election.
Dec
4
Will Income Tax Actually Benefit The South?
Filed Under COIT, Elsie Franklin, Income Tax, Lake County, Lake County Council, property tax crisis, tax revolt | 8 Comments
Will the Lake County income tax actually act as a “reverse Robin Hood” and take money from the poorer north and send it to the wealthier southern parts of Lake County?
Writes Bill Dolan in the Northwest Indiana Times:
Millions of dollars generated by a proposed income tax could migrate out of the pockets of Gary, Merrillville and Hammond residents to benefit homeowners in Munster, Dyer, St. John, Schererville and Crown Point.
A source close to the Lake County Council disclosed Monday a study that indicates many communities north of U.S. 30 would be the losers while those to the south would benefit from a property tax reduction plan depending on a new local income tax.
County President Elsie Franklin, D-Gary, questioned the authenticity of the data obtained by The Times on Monday, saying she hasn’t seen it and won’t comment until she does.
I’m skeptical because the Lake County income tax supporters would never support a plan that flows the money from north county to the south. There would be too much power to be lost — not to mention consequences at the polls — if money was to flow the wrong way out of the tax supporters’ districts.
