Here’s a warning for all of you senior citizens living in nursing homes ran by your church, Tom Henry is going after your wallet.
From the Indianapolis Business Journal
Mayors of some of the largest cities in the state are organizing to ask the General Assembly to consider “payment-in-lieu-of-taxes” for hospitals and some other not-for-profits that don’t pay property taxes.
The mayors, including Fort Wayne’s Tom Henry, are desperate to backfill a revenue hole caused by capping property taxes.
Henry told IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin for a story published in this week’s paper that while the group doesn’t want to tax churches, it is interested in targeting such church-owned ventures as nursing homes.
Yes, those evil nursing home operators. In the end, it will be the residents footing the bill.
Maybe Henry could start by not spending money on consultants and lawyers to fight I&M, and lobbyist to get a casino that’s never going to happen? How about cutting expenses? Naw, never happen.
A local option sales tax will be next.
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How about polling the citizens of Fort Wayne instead of buying manufactured reports to tell them what to develop (or not to develop) next?
How about cutting some of his many propogandists and instead requiring him to make his case the way a fair and honest man does?
How about cutting the 5% or so of the FWPD who simply don’t care about this city. Since they seem to be among the highest ranking officers there, that would save a lot of money.
Or better yet, let’s just let Henry take the entire annual budget and bet it at the horsetrack. That’s sure to make us some money. And if he gambles away our money at only $99,000 a pop, he won’t even need to get Council approval.
This should be the front page headlines of our local papers! I guess the in-laws will be moving in with us in their twilight years. Hope they stay healthy.
Maybe our “mayor” would better serve his community if he spent half as much time fighting crime as he has in trying to get his casino or cashing in on I&M. Also, has anyone asked him what he will do with the money he intends on “saving” by taking the utility back from I&M?
Great post Dan! Kudos!
But what about the “progress”, Phil? Like spending over a million dollars to screw Calhoun Street so His Honor Our Maximum Supreme Mayor can now drive home after work without having to make all those left turns…..
Dan:
While a sales tax might seem in order (hopefully NOT), I have a nasty feeling Fort Wayne might opt for a local “city wage tax”, much like they did back in Philly (which is about 3 TIMES the state tax taken out, btw)…
That is a big chunk out of one’s paycheck there.
It applies IF EITHER you LIVE in the city OR work in the city…a real no-win scenario. Everybody pays something (except the welfare masses)
Nice money-maker for the short-haul, until people start pulling up stakes, and take THEIR money with them.
No wonder Philly is damn near broke.
Let’s hope “The King” and his court don’t read this…and get any ideas, hmm?
Damn good post, Dan.
Keep those hits comin’.
You will all be welcome to move your businesses and homes to New Haven. Don’t laugh, our leaf pick-up has been done for two weeks, streets are plowed within ten hours, you don’t need to pay to have your street plowed in your sub-division.I do not intend to ask for a city income tax. Live, work, play here, you can be downtown in minutes for shows and the ball park, to the mall and the airport in a short drive as well. I feel sorry for you, but welcome you to our community.
Question, has New Haven managed to clean up River Haven? Stop any of the overabundance of drug trafficking in its town, not that Fort Wayne has one up on you there, just asking. Is East Allen County Schools still the system from heck I remember it to be, again Fort Wayne is worse but they make up for it by having more than one school system? Do parents still think that all they’re dropping their kids off at Bell’s Roller Rink on a Friday or Saturday night for is just skating? In short, has any of the filth I have experienced and moved away from been cleaned away yet?
I attended one of the East Allen County consolidation meeting a couple yers ago in New Haven. My request was that after the process is complete, they allow Fort Wayne residents to secede and join their new City. I would gladly trade up.
As far as the drug problems go, I have a difficult time imagining New Haven could have anything near the same problem as here in Fort Wayne. Of course, they are also covered by the same Fort Wayne “lack of news” papers as here, so we probably wouldn’t know anyway.
As an interesting side note, before landing here in “crack central station” one of the HUD homes I considered puchasing was on Green St., in New Haven. It was a bit more expensive, but it did not have bullet holes in the siding.