There are 20 ways to CUT residential property taxes in
Indiana:

1. Mandatory IN 36-7-4-1300 IMPACT FEES on NEW
CONSTRUCTION. Pay the fee in the mortgage over 15 to
30 years. Growth states such as California, Florida
and Georgia collect impact fees to pay for new schools
and infrastructure. In Indiana, NEW construction does
not pay property taxes for approximately TWO years.

2. Mandatory SALES TAX on NEW CONSTRUCTION. Central
Indiana is the #1 most affordable housing market in
the USA with five years of record-breaking sales up to
2006.

3. Increase BUILDING PERMIT FEES, WATER & SEWER TAP-ON
FEES, DEVELOPMENT LICENSE FEES, etc.

4. Use ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCOME TAXES (EDIT) to
offset residential property taxes. Tax revenue raised
by EDIT that is given to businesses increased local
income taxes by 250% in Hendricks County while growth
and corporate welfare have caused residential property
taxes to increase 350%.

5. Increase DIESEL FUEL TAXES, LICENSES, TOLLS and
WHEEL TAXES on large, heavy trucks that destroy our
roads and bridges; therefore NO property tax revenue
necessary to be used for transportation
infrastructure. NO privatization of toll roads needed
that would be a financial burden on your children and
grandchildren.

6. Elimination of TAX ABATEMENTS for retail and
warehouses paying low wages whose employees (some who
are illegal aliens) do not provide sufficient taxes
for government services such as education, police &
fire and infrastructure but do require taxpayer paid
Medicaid, rent subsidies, energy assistance, food
stamps, education and illegal alien law enforcement.
Illegals receive these tax paid benefits.

7. Elimination of TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (TIF) and
SALES TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (STIF) that deprive
schools, police & fire, road & bridge repair, water &
sewer upgrades, libraries and other essential
government services from needed tax revenue.

8. Elimination of TIF RECOVERY on the residential
property tax bills that pay for business tax cuts.
This is a double tax on homeowners.

9. Elimination of ALL CORPORATE WELFARE such as SINGLE
FACTOR SALES APPORTIONMENT, TAX CREDITS, TAX GRANTS,
TRAINING GRANTS and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCOME TAXES
(EDIT) on family income. The best corporate welfare
has only moved lower (40% less) paying Honda/Toyota
jobs into Indiana to replace higher paid
GM/Ford/Chrysler jobs that include better benefits.
Since 1997, auto sales in the USA have averaged
approximately 17 million each year. Therefore, more
auto sales or jobs are not being created; and Indiana
citizens' standard of living is decreasing.

10. Eliminate NON-PROFIT STATUS for institutions that
do not pay property taxes such as medical care that is
bankrupting American families and foreclosing on their
homes because it is 16% of GDP and rising fast.

11. Use the Innkeeper tax (hotel/motel taxes),
food/beverage tax and car rental tax to pay for parks,
water, sewer and road repairs that tourists and guests
use when they visit our state or your county instead
of multi-million dollar sport facilities and private
business marketing/sales expenses.

12. STOP development costs and business taxes from
being SHIFTED to residential property taxpayers, to
low & middle class income taxpayers and to sales
taxpayers. Home Town Matters will only accelerate this
shift of taxes.

13. Say NO to NEW, high density, cheap, small ground
floor, vinyl housing that reduces present property
values. A $250000 home is required to pay property
taxes for essential government services.

14. Read the "Great American Jobs Scam, Corporate Tax
Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation" book by Greg
LeRoy available at
http://www.greatamericanjobsscam.com, the Indiana
government library in Indianapolis or your local
library.

15. NO NFL tax breaks or using taxpayers’ money to
pay for the Super Bowl. Use these tax savings to cut
RPT.

16. Indiana has a “brain drain” problem. NO
full-day kindergarten, taxpayer paid textbooks or
selling/leasing the lottery are needed. Use surplus
taxes to cut RPT.

17. NO $27 million tax subsidy to horse racing or the
film industry. Use subsidies to cut RPT.

18. Increase taxes on tobacco, alcohol, gas guzzling
vehicles and luxury goods and services. Use these
taxes to cut RPT and fund medical/health insurance for
the uninsured.

19. Use the 20% increase in sales taxes and gasoline
taxes enacted a few years ago to cut RPT instead of
cutting business property taxes. My RPT increased 19%
the following year.

20. Repeal the $9000 pay increase that is
automatically adjusted for inflation that the Indiana
State General Assembly recently voted for themselves.
Use the tax savings to cut RPT.

Contact the Governor, General Assembly state
politicians and county & town politicians TODAY!

Brent Pittman