EDITORIAL: Property tax relief will create winners, losers

The Journal Gazette

Every Hoosier should care.

Over the next two weeks, Indiana lawmakers will make significant, far-reaching decisions about taxes that will affect every Indiana resident. Homeowners, renters, consumers, workers, business owners, farmers, students - all have something at stake.

What proponents are billing as property tax "reform" is in fact a thinly veiled shift in the tax burden. Property taxes will go down for homeowners, but sales taxes will go up nearly 17 percent statewide, and workers in many communities will end up paying higher local income taxes as well.