"We're trying to get people to cause a traffic jam in the downtown area around city hall and the courthouse," said Cary Malchow, owner of the Outfitter T-shirt store and an organizer of the protest. "We're trying to make it inconvenient for public officials. If they can't get in and out, they will see the inconvenience that this (property-tax increase) has put our life in. Or they will look out their windows and see what's going on out there."Frankly, I have a problem here. Two problems, actually. First, we depend too much on property taxes but that is jsut a general grievance of mine.
My second problem comes out of the quoted paragraph - the taxpayer seems to think that politicians willy-nilly increased the property tax.
I think a good deal more of the following protest:
Eckerty is part of a group called Business Owners for Property Tax Reform that plans to attract 500 business owners to a "Property Tax Repeal Rally" at 7 p.m. July 31 at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts.
"We don't want to just gripe about taxes," Eckerty said. "We want to come to the table and offer solutions. The biggest problem with this whole monumental property tax increase is it's sucking way too much money out of the economy of Muncie and Delaware County. It's sucking all the money out of customers' pockets."
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