Comments on Advance Indiana™: Star Continues To Push Public Safety Tax Increase Propaganda

If you look at the record of almost any of the peo...

2014-04-30T06:47:56.641-05:00

If you look at the record of almost any of the people committing the most serious crimes, they've been in and out of the criminal justice system. They serve very little of their original sentence, or their original sentence wasn't long at the outset. Hiring more officers won't reduce crime if the same criminal offenders are simply going to be released time and time again to recommit crimes.

The City Controller stated that you can hire them,...

2014-04-30T05:30:51.086-05:00

The City Controller stated that you can hire them, but cannot keep them! By max'ing out the local taxes allowed by law, the city can hire the new officers, but cannot keep them because they will cause a deficit in the budget after a few years. Then what?

Lay them off? -Allow criminals to victimize us?

If taxes are at maximum allowed, then the only choice will be to lay them off and then we all become victims...and our city will become South Detroit, Indiana.

Yes, all the questions raised in this post of Adva...

2014-04-29T09:55:17.859-05:00

Yes, all the questions raised in this post of AdvanceIndiana should be addressed by the only daily newspaper in Indianapolis.

Do not expect the Mega-Media to ask your questions...

2014-04-29T09:46:12.485-05:00

Do not expect the Mega-Media to ask your questions. Our Local Mega-Media subscribes to the Mayor's Press Releases as their sole source for Reporting.

The Democratic wing of our Republicrat Party will need to do an elaborate dance routine. The Democrats will need to hit the "Crime" Issue. However, the tricky part of the routine will be the Democrats will not want to blamed for Tax Increase. Been there done that and the Democrats lost to Ballard.

So the Mega-Media Campaign will stress Bi-Partisan support for a tax increase that way neither Wing of the Reublicrat Party can be blamed for increasing taxes.

The Democrats will keep Crony-Capitalism off the campaign table. Both Political Parties present a United Front in favor of Crony-Capitalism. Hence the name Republicrat. More tax dollars for the Pacers or Colts no problem.

By the way Irsay's problem with the Law seems have disappeared from our watch dog Media.

i am an impd police officer and we are incredibly ...

2014-04-29T08:32:30.966-05:00

i am an impd police officer and we are incredibly understaffed. it is the worse i have ever seen it.

having said that i don't support a tax increase. it makes no sense to me that all these tax incentives are being given away and yet when a fundamental service needs funding the taxpayers have to pay more.

that is to say, if there isn't money in the pot to pay for basic city services there certainly isn't any money to give away.

if you can't pay your rent you don't give money away to other people. some things come first.

besides, they will pump up the city's revenues, higher a few officers, everyone will "feel better", and then the allgeged increases will NEVER happen. they have never happened before and they won't happen this time.

not under this mayor. no way.

Now, now we can't let a few niggling facts pre...

2014-04-28T22:28:57.214-05:00

Now, now we can't let a few niggling facts prevent the Mayor and the City Council from pushing more taxes down our throats.

I'm sure the Mayor and the City Council will be more than happy to tell us where all of the public safety increases, fee increases and reduced pension liability dollars were spent.