Jan
1
Lake County Faces ‘Wrath of the State’
Filed Under Roosevelt Allen Jr, government spending | Leave a Comment
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.
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
25
Hoosier Access spots an item from Northwest Indiana on Congressman John Campbell’s Green Eyeshade blog.
Highland, Indiana’s bike path gets a mention on the Pork Vacation Tour!
The bad news is that we are going to have to pay more and more taxes to support all of those other projects in other states in the ever increasing federal budget.
The good news is that we got something back for all of those tax dollars that are deducted from our paychecks.
Of course, we’re spending so much that we have to run a tab – $9,139,991,365,436.97, plus additional interest, according to the U.S. Treasury.
One of these days, the bill will come due and we’ll have to pay it back.
