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Our taxes could be spent in so many ways to make this state prepared for the next decade and century, yet we don’t have elected officials who can see past the next election.
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Well done….Indiana continues to be a well run fiscal player in the USA. I’d much rather see surpluses that we figure out where to reinvest, than the reckless abandonment and out of control debt in other states.
Unfortunately I think by law they have to refund. I too would like to see roads in unprivileged areas cleaned up, street lights updated, funding for schools to upgrade facilities, etc.
There’s well run and then there is greedy over taxation… 6 billion in excess is clearly not the first one!
Sitting on this money when Indiana has so many unmet needs is a massive disservice to Hoosiers.
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Agree. Sitting on 6 billion dollars while or public education system has fallen to 48th in the nation is unbelievable. Our public education system is now ranked lower than the poorest state in the union. Mississippi.
Indiana is in excellent shape, fiscally and by many other metrics. Typical liberal attitude to “throw money at societal ills” breeds corrupt spending practices and financial ruin. Just look at our neighbor to the west, Illinois, to see a glaring example of that outcome. Health and education conditions are outcomes that result from choices made by each individual. Throwing more public money to teachers that are all part-time employees is a horrific waste. The Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) UNION promotes this non-stop because the more teachers get paid the greater the ISTA revenue from teachers union dues. Of course the leftists, university elites and media … all leftists, support this because that is the leftist way. Take money from taxpayers and “redistribute” it to others. Send the surplus back to those that earned the money, the taxpayers. It’s their money!
You can’t be serious. “Education conditions” (whatever that means) are the responsibility of an 8 year old third grader? And teachers ABSOLUTELY should be paid more than they are. And you are obviously clueless about the amount of work teaching actually entails if you think teachers are part time employees. The work for many teachers doesn’t end until well after the final bell of the school day rings. Investing in education and healthcare are critical to the continued economic success of Indiana. Yours is one of the silliest comments I’ve ever read on these threads.
Have to agree with Marshall P. This might be the silliest and at the same time awful comments I have ever seen in the comments section.
Lmao, what? We have some of the worst educational attainment in the US, we have severe brain drain (people don’t want to live in a socially conservative state with bad public services. Sorry, that’s just the reality of it), and household poverty has exploded in Indiana under Republican leadership. By no extent is Indiana in “excellent shape.”
Two days ago CNBC released its annual report on “America’s Top States for Business.” Using seven categories, Indiana came in overall at #14. But in one the Hoosier state stood out in 48th place: workforce quality. That’s right, only two states are worse than Indiana (Missouri and Vermont). Kentucky, of all places, came in at #17.
So when it comes to spending money to better prepare Indiana’s next generation for high-paying jobs, there’s no better place to do that in secondary and post-secondary public education. For starters, Indiana should amend the decades old law that requires students to only attend high school through age 16. Every student should be required to attend school until they graduate. No exceptions.
Then, Indiana should offer the first year of community college at no cost to every high school graduate regardless of their graduating GPA, and the second year at no additional cost for student’s who achieved a 2.5 GPA in their first year.
Finally, every high school and community college should revise their curriculum to include STEM and business courses.
Using some of the billions in surplus revenue to jump-start these initiatives will go a long way to not only improving the prosperity of future generations of Hoosiers but of the state of Indiana as well.
(https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/americas-top-states-for-business-2022-the-full-rankings.html)
Senators Boots and Becker were quoted as saying that Indiana doesn’t really have a surplus when you owe the teacher’s retirement fund $9 billion.
Then why did they just pass a tax cut in the last session as a going away present to Tim Brown, instead of paying down debt?
Often heard this called the “rainy day fund”…. How about filling all the potholes holding all the rain? Oh wait, perhaps climate change will dry up all the rain, and the itsy bitsy spider will die along with the rest of the wildlife, and then my broken axle will melt itself back together. Thanks GOP. “Responsible stewardship”. What a “laugh.”
I’ll continue to post again and email all legislators R or D. Stop with this refund. You want to benefit all Hoosiers, accelerate the already approved reduction of our income tax to happen now versus phased in over three years. We obviously have the income coming in to cover it. This impacts social security retirees also and helps them. — Dems stop pushing for a gas tax relief. The state is about to spend millions in visit Indiana ads to bring tourism here and one good way to get ROI on them is give us out of state income on gas taxes. It’ll also amount to one full tank of gas….Holcomb’s proposal we at least get 2 tanks. Lowering the Income Rate benefits all of us for the next three years way more than $225.
Tbh, I would rather the State lift one cent of the state sales tax and allow localities to pick it up. The State is *really bad* at distributions, so allowing local governments to have that revenue stream would be huge.