Jan
14
Marion Co. Gets All The Good Stuff While NWI Gets Screwed
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The Post-Tribune’s John Byrne witnesses how Marion County’s legislators always draft legislation that favors their area, while denying the same for Northwest Indiana’s taxpayers and residents.
I felt Northwest Indiana’s isolation from the Statehouse this week.
We all know about the physical and philosophical divide between the 219 area code and the rest of the state, which manifests itself in fiscal policies, time zone arguments and occasional name calling.
Sen. Frank Mrvan of Hammond felt it recently during a Senate Tax Committee meeting, when he questioned a proposal that would allow a different disbursal of property tax rebates to homeowners in Marion County and a few other localities than in the rest of the state.
“I think it goes back to the old saying … ,” Sen. Luke Kenley, the committee’s chairman, told Mrvan. “What goes on in Marion County stays in Marion County.”
