Indiana property tax cuts are dead after Republican losses | Opinion
A few political pundits, including IndyStar contributing columnist Rob Kendall, have argued in their midterm election postmortems that Indiana Republicans’ failure to pass substantial property tax cuts contributed to their losses in the Nov. 3 elections. If property tax cuts really caused otherwise-Republican voters to stay home or vote for the Democrats, their decision is about to backfire. Republicans were on track to make massive property tax cuts next legislative session. Senate leadership changes and a new class of legislators more amenable to property tax cuts seemed poised to deliver them. The elections changed that. Stewart: Trump Senate wins mean deeper property tax cuts for Indiana Indiana Senate leaders, including Sen. Chris Garten, the president pro tempore-elect, and Sen. Ryan Mishler, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, introduced a plan to cut homestead property taxes entirely and replace them with local income taxes. Rep. J.D. Prescott, R-Union City, promoted a separate plan to eliminate property taxes altogether in exchange for a service tax. I don't care for either proposal, but they were the best property tax abolitionists were going to get. Now that Democrats broke the Republican supermajority in the Indiana House of Representatives, there is enough disagreement within the
