Comment by mobilene
10 hours ago
We do the same here in Indianapolis and my read is that it's about cost containment. Our tax base here really doesn't fully support city services. And then more people move to the high-tax-base suburbs for better services, and the cycle repeats and gets worse.
This means that the divisions of administration are too small. Perhaps it should just a be county level or even state level concern
Indianapolis and Marion County are basically the same thing, interestingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unigov
To be fair, Indiana is now a Northern South state. MAGA governor, doing MAGA things to the state run universities, demolition of decency, acquiescence to federal power when it should fall to the state. And the AG is attacking doctors doing legitimate surgeries (abortion) with criminal harassing charges. Brain drain is also significant around West Lafayette, Marion county, and Bloomington due to anti-immigrant activities. And even small towns like Spencer are getting ICE presence.
Its becoming a place to actively leave, if you haven't already.
These are all factual things that Indiana state government has actually done over the past 10-15 years.
Not to mention the crippling higher education reforms and the state seizing control over tenure review.
… and don’t forget about the new law they’re rolling out to lure the Bears from Chicago. Read the actual drafts so far… Absolutely nothing about the Bears being required to pay a dime for the stadium, but a whole bunch of new taxes for which the revenue is “redirected” into making the Bears’ lease payments. LOL, it’s such a huge money giveaway the Bears would be crazy not to take it.
You should see my blue state! Endless tax increases, public unions striking for more pay to do less work, corruption endemic!
Weirdly what I bet you find is that the services move to where the white rich people are and are removed from where they aren't.
Honestly the roads in Carmel and Fishers are not significantly better. They do have a shit-ton of roundabouts though. More roundabouts than a Yes song.