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Maybe State Legislators should focus less on reducing the State’s already-low business taxes and focus more on reducing/eliminating personal income taxes. Witness the growth and success in States with no personal income tax (FL, TX, TN). Nashville is crushing Indy over the past 5 years and the pace is only increasing.
I don’t get why people believe Indy is leading Nashville. Nashville is rated in an actual tier for world class cities whereas Indianapolis is included in the lowest footnote equivalent.
Maybe Indiana’s state legislators should focus less on taxes and more on spending tax revenue on providing Pre-K education, improving elementary and secondary education, and getting serious about preparing young people for the careers of tomorrow rather than the careers of the prior century.
Guaranteed that the vast majority of higher earners working in Marion County received a better and higher education than 95-percent of higher earners in the rural counties that lag the national average income. Education is the key to success. Why does our state leadership fail to grasp this? Why do they fail to do anything about it?
Brent, we don’t have an education system anymore. You can’t apply 2006-era solutions to 2023-era dysfunction.
But it always so entertaining watching urban citizens flout their unearned moral, intellectual, and cultural superiority over those hayseeds. The city/country dynamic is truly working wonders for Illinois. A single little smear in the northeast of the state is bringing the entire rest of it to its knees.
Are you going to blame Chicago for the failings of rural Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Kentucky, too?
Rural America – and the rural Midwest in particular – has been faltering for a long time. They aren’t economically viable places to live. Even the majority of people leaving cities with their own set of problems – like Chicago – move to other large metropolitan area rather than move rural communities.
Rural America is not economically viable anymore.
Chicago is the economic engine that powers Illinois state revenues, just as Indianapolis is the economic engine for Indiana. The statistics don’t lie.
No Robert, I’m not going to blame Chicago for other states’ rural failings. Chicago is denigrating the fortunes of Illinois well enough. It doesn’t need to sweep its surrounding states into the vortex.
Huge swathes of Chicago/Detroit/Indianapolis/Milwaukee/Louisville “aren’t economically viable places to live”, within their city limits. Should we write off cities? Even I’m not willing to do that. But there’s growing evidence that cities and the surrounding state aren’t willing to find compromises, which in turn seems to hurt both the big cities AND the rural areas in places like Illinois. They need balance. But in places like Chicago, the city so overwhelms the rest of the population that it fundamentally steers the whole state in a single direction. There’s no reason to expect rural Illinois, with its sparse population and limited services, should manage to prosper with business taxes so high. For all we can claim rural Indiana “has no economic viability” there is no place as poor in Indiana as the southernmost counties in IL. And plenty of marginal third-tier cities in IL make Marion Indiana look like paradise.
And while many are moving to the suburbs (which I hope to remain more politically balanced), to pretend that all of rural America is just hopeless nowheresville neglects the fact that the collar counties of any big city–including Indy–were rural America 50-60 years, behind the times, and nobody deemed that Hamilton County would someday become one of the 50 wealthiest counties in America. Americans have shown an astonishing willingness to jump ship when they see it start to sink.
The statistics don’t lie, Brent: businesses are pulling out of Chicago city limits and moving to the suburbs…or they’re leaving Illinois/California/New York altogether, and moving to states whose business climate is less driven by a single large city monopolizing the politics.
It never ceases to get old watching the smug moral/intellectual/cultural superiority being articulated by adherents to the same party that used that as a tool to treat people they deemed their inferiors in the 1960s in a similar fashion. And thought themselves morally righteous as well.