IS IT TRUE May 9, 2013
IS IT TRUE Muncie, Indiana Mayor Dennis Tyler and the Muncie City Council are hoping what is being described as a property tax disaster might not be as bad as it appears?…it was only yesterday that it was discovered and report that it is possible that a $9 million shortfall in property tax revenue for this year will impact the combined budgets of Delaware County, the City of Muncie, and the school corporation that serves both?…$6 Million of those dollars are identified as being a shortfall to the City of Muncie alone?…the problem in Muncie has been traced to a legislative change in the verification of every homesteaded property in the State of Indiana?…the Legislature instructed the auditors of each county to send “pink†forms to all homesteaded properties to verify the homeowner still lives in the home and is entitled to the exemption?…the changes and the declassification of homesteaded properties that failed to respond after 5 notices forced many properties below the circuit breaker caps implemented constitutionally by Indiana cap residential property taxes at 1% of assessed value per year?…yesterday it was revealed that Muncie is having a budget shortfall but it is widely expected that many other cities including Evansville are about to learn that they will have multi-million holes blown in their budgets THIS YEAR?
IS IT TRUE if as expected the City of Evansville will be impacted proportionally to Muncie that there could be as much as a $10 Million shortfall in the current budget?…this will not be the first time that Mayor Lloyd Winnecke who is currently touring Amsterdam and Osnabruck in Germany has been stung by something attached to the Homestead Tax Credit?…in 2009 it was now Mayor Winnecke who honored the request of his buddy then Mayor Weinzapfel and called the now infamous meeting where Vanderburgh County became the only county in Indiana to eliminate the Homestead Tax Credit by silence and inaction?…this all worked out when the City County Observer exposed this sneaky scheme and the Governor Mitch Daniels came in at the last minute to reinstate the Homestead Tax Credit for the homeowners of Vanderburgh County?…it is truly ironic that the Winnecke Administration may be dealing with a cash shortfall due to the Homestead Tax Credit coming back to bite them on the backside?
IS IT TRUE that at this point the authors of the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) are taking every opportunity to distance themselves from this bill that has been characterized by its principle author as “AN IMPLEMENTATION TRAINWRECKâ€?…that author, Senator Max Baucus is so afraid of what is about to happen the he is not even going to run to keep his seat next year?…ObamaCare that was touted as saving each American family $2,500 per year is now on track to increase health insurance premiums by about $3,500 per year on the average family that now only earns about $51,000 per year down from $55,000 in 2009?…this $6,000 reverse of fortune for the average American family amounts to a 12% pre tax pay cut on top of the $4,000 real pay cut they have already absorbed?…ObamaCare must not be fooling anyone in the United States Congress though because it was recently revealed that they are making haste to EXEMPT THEMSELVES AND THEIR STAFFS FROM IT?…if this action is taken the American people should resolve to never return even one person who “VOTED FOR IT SO THEY COULD FIND OUT WHAT WAS IN ITâ€?…this unintended (maybe) monstrosity makes the bumblings of local government in Evansville look like child’s play?…it is time to institute the age old activity of reading, learning, and thinking things through back into government of all levels?…the things that only government can do are too important to leave the execution of these tasks to scatter brained narcissists?
