Letter: Indiana Property Taxes

Property taxes are finally getting as much attention from the Republicans and Democrats as the Libertarians have been giving them for years. I'd like to say its about time, but its hard to get too enthused about their concern.

I read an article written by a local Republican legislator, who complains that he has been unable to garner support for property tax reform for 10 years, and now wants to use the wave of discontent among voters to pass legislation that would shuffle and add taxes in hope of providing some form of property tax relief.

I'm sorry, but we don't need property tax relief in the form of higher taxes on something else. We don't really need to transfer the taxing ability from one branch of government to another, because ultimately it doesn't matter if the county council or the state legislature is taking our money.

What we really need is some spending relief. That is the only thing that will make any type of tax relief possible.

Rex Bell
Hagerstown
Chairman, Libertarian Party of Wayne County

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