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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowU.S. Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana said Tuesday that the spirit in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention is one of confidence and unity.
Even before Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the GOP was on course for success, he said.
“I’m looking forward to culminating on Thursday with a party as united as it could possibly be after five and a half years. In the time that I’ve been there, it’s had so many ups and downs, and I think it’s finally coming home to roost on the policy end of it, punctuated by candidate issues on the other side of the aisle that they’re contending with,” Braun told the Capital Chronicle, via telephone.
“I think we’re at a point that if Republicans can’t figure it out now … we’ve got to go back to first base in trying to figure out how we come up with better ideas that resonate more clearly with Americans,” he added.
Braun also noted his concern about the U.S. Secret Service following the shooting.
“I don’t see how any agency or entity within our federal government could have dropped the ball more than what happened there,” he said.
A number of investigations are already underway.
Braun, who is the GOP nominee for governor, also said he will have a plan soon on helping Hoosiers with high property taxes.
“I would view it as probably the No. 1 issue I hear about,” he said. “Property taxes have been an issue of discomfort for at least a couple of years … it’s been overlooked for at least a couple sessions, and we can’t overlook it anymore.”
He said he is talking with legislators who will be crucial in making any changes to the system, and mentioned the interplay between assessed property value and the levies that raise revenue for local governments.
“That is where the rubber meets the road. These levies are going to have to be in line with a limitation of what even strong economies can generate, and most can’t grow more than 2.5% to 3%,” Braun said. “If you want revenues above that, my feeling is, conceptually, you’d have to fall into where you do a referendum to do it, to where you can’t automatically use the system to generate revenues beyond that level, because we can’t afford to do that year after year.”
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I have a bad feeling that Braun has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about…
Braun has long made it abundantly clear he has no idea what he is talking about. Moreover, many of his proposals will only serve to harm Hoosiers and set the state back further. The man is unfit to serve in the Senate and he certainly does not belong in the Governor’s office. Braun needs to be retired by the voters and sent packing. Let him move to Arizona or Florida and disappear into obscurity.
Property Taxes are not high… they were just suppressed for the last 15 years. People are now having to pay fair market value for their property taxes and are upset about it
However – if someone could get the taxes more properly spent in the right places that would be the real win for Indiana residents
We don’t collect enough money as is.
We refuse to spend on education and roads.
If you look at their actions, Indiana Republicans make clear Indiana is a state without a future worth investing in.
Poor sky screamers have to hang their goobernatorial hopes on a GOP reject. How pathetic is that?