Speaker Bauer playing Politics

WSBT-TV reported today on Jackie Walorski's petition drive to eliminate property taxes. Speaker Bauer (D-South Bend) was also interviewed.

"But Speaker B. Pat Bauer says her plan to eliminate the property tax is impossible.“You would have to eliminate local schools and/or local government, local police and local fire,” he explained. “Or you would have to replace that property tax with another source of revenue, and the only two sources of revenue on the state level that raise any money are sales and income [taxes].”

Does Pat Bauer think we're stupid? Of course most of the revenue will have to be replaced! While we strongly believe spending should also be cut back, most of our opposition to property taxes is founded on the fact that it is a very poor system. It's extremely subjective, corrupt at times, and very costly.

So why did Bauer say this? It's all in a single word; politics. If it's not his idea, it's a bad idea. Thank you Mr. Bauer for your bipartisan effort to help the people of Indiana! What a joke!