Anderson mayor to ask city council to raise city's income tax

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A Casey I hate to do this.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is nine to twenty three in the morning on
September the fourth, twenty twenty five, and we have to
do the least favorite part of every show for me.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, is that where you tell everyone you were right?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, and I'm loaded to do this this early in
the program, but uh oh, it's kind of a Casey show.
By the way, my name is Rob, that's Casey. So
this comes from Garrett Birquist on Twitter. And just to reset,
remember when we told you after the property tax bill passed,
and we said you are about to get so hose.

(00:35):
You don't you can't even fathom what's going to happen.
And we told you the time we said it, we'll
take several years for this to play out, and the
lawmakers know it because there will likely be for you
some savings in year one and you'll go, oh, look,
I got the few hundred dollars back, and we said,
well get petty ready pal, because you're going to end
for a problem. But what they're banking on is you
going back to sleep and not being able to figure

(00:56):
it out. And you've ever seen the movie The Sandlot hmm, yeah,
the baseball movie yeah. The premise of the Sandlot is
these kids in the sixties play baseball in a sandlot.
They run out of baseball's One day, the main character
goes home who knows actually nothing about baseball, and steals
his dad's Babe Ruth autograph baseball, which they go play

(01:20):
with and they hit it into the yard where the
beast dog is, and so they have to come up
with a way to get the ball back. But in
the meantime they got to make sure his dad doesn't
know the ball's gone. So they buy a baseball and
one of the kids signs Babe Ruth's name on the baseball,
and at one point, as he's signing the ball, one
of the kids goes, I don't know, Benny, that signature

(01:41):
looks pretty crappy, and he goes.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Look, this is just a bias some time.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's what the General Assembly was doing with the property
tax bill. They are Bennie in the Sandlot.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Huh, this is just a bias some time forging Babe
Ruth's autograph before you don't figure out how you're gonna
get screwed.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
And one things we told you is gonna happen. Not
only will the prop already tax cut quotes totally go
away in a couple of years because there's nothing in
this bill that addresses assessments, which is why the bills
keep going up.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Correct, but there's something that stops the bills from going up.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So within a best case scenario, current current increases, et cetera,
your cut will go away within the next three to
four years. Now, we also told you what was going
to happen, and it is that these school districts are
going to be sprinting to the referendums turnstiles because they're
not just going to take getting less money because the
General Assembly always rolls over and plays dead for the

(02:34):
public education system. That's happening see Avon C Fort Wayne schools.
Next year, you're going to see a whole bunch more.
But the big one mirror mirror on the wall. How
are we going to get screwed? The most of all,
it is these local income tax increases that cities which
previously were not allowed to do them, are going to do.

(02:55):
So let's review what did we tell you is going
to happen. Within the next three to five years. Your
tax cut will go because of the property tax increases
that continue you're gonna see a whole bunch of schools
do referendums, which means you'll have tax increases on top
of that, and you will pay this local income tax
in a whole bunch of places you didn't pay before,
Which brings me to Casey at nine to twenty six

(03:16):
in the morning, my least favorite part of every show.
Another example of us proving how right we were. From
Garrett Birquist from WISH TV on Twitter. Anderson Mayor Thomas
Brodericks says his city will use budget reserves to make
up the shortfall from the fiscal years twenty six and
twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Okay, he will ask the.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
City council to raise the city's local income tax rate
for twenty twenty eight. There it is.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Damn, I'm good and I do this well. I can't
believe we give this show away for free. So in
two and a half years in Anderson, which.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
What did we tell you? Yea, what did we tell
you was going to happen?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
And it's all things that broad and micah and that
med Goh no, that's not gonna happen. Oh oh, they
also told me. But if it does, you got to
go fight it.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
You got to fight the school board, the city council,
the county council, you get the fire territory. You gotta
fight them all because we're gutless.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
So there you go. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Braun said he was going to knock on doors with
you to fight school referendums.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
The AVON people told me they have still not heard
back from Michaeh or Broun on their pledge to knock
on doors to defeat school reference.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
They're going to be so busy in this next session
because Braun is saying utility price is going to be
a top priority for him. But he also said they
were going to come back and readdress property taxes.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Oh yeah, he's coming back for more.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
He's got a card, he's got a What do you
tell those well meaning but naive people that went to
the mansion. He's got to ace up his sleeve versus
of course he won't tell. He's like Nixon and Vietnam, right,
he got a plan.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I can't tell you what it is. Tell you what
it is.