Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is pressing on with his campaign pledge to lower the state's flat income tax rate from 3.4 percent to 3.06 percent.

Saving taxpayers money and carrying through on promises are laudable goals. Yet cutting this tax seems wrong.

First of all, the state and local tax burden on Indiana families already ranked just below the national average in the nation in the latest Tax Foundation analysis.

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