Taking Down Words: Weighing In: Panel Calls For Reform, You Decide What You Think
Blue Indiana comments on article from South Bend newspaper: School districts ask: "Is bigger better?" (With everyone knowing that smaller student to teacher ratios being better for teaching, this is a dmaned good qustion to be asking.)
Muncie's Star-Press editoralizes It's time Hoosiers got their money's worth:
Some local taxpayer activists have focused on the elimination of property taxes, believing that government, in particular local government, would be forced to change as a result. It is a stand that has little chance of succeeding. The increase in other taxes, like income and sales, necessary to maintain basic services like trash collection, snow removal, and police and fire protection would be too great.
The only real solution is for the General Assembly to take action to change the basic structure of local government, a task addressed by the Indiana Commission of Local Government Reform. Members of the commission obviously thought outside of the box in their 46-page report released last week. Their recommendations would change the face of Indiana government.
The comprehensive reorganization the report calls for is probably too radical for a General Assembly full of vested political interests and beset by lobbyists that has historically spent a great deal of its time maintaining the status quo. Here is where the grassroots tax protesters and others need to focus their attention, because change will only happen if the clamor from average Hoosiers is loud and relentless.
A business or restaurant that doesn't perform well usually isn't around for long. Yet, Indiana's state and local governments haven't been performing well for decades and have not been held accountable.
There is a plan. There is momentum. It's time Hoosiers insist they get their money's worth.
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