Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1920 — RESULT OF THE BAD EXAMPLE [ARTICLE]

RESULT OF THE BAD EXAMPLE

Sat by W. T. McCray In Listing Hla Proparty for Taxation. Yielding to the annual and continued walls of the discredited state board of tax commissioners to boost the valuations, raise the assessments again, and which has been pawed on to the township assessors by nearly all the county assessors, the personal valuations in Indiana as shown by the from all the counties show an increase over 1919 of 1236,603,572. Of this increase 11,086,315 was made tn the Jasper county personal assessment, which is 36,583,315, against 35,496,830 in 1919. Benton county is 39,615,550, an increase es 32,121,410; Lake, 3108,699,742, an increase of 334,059,527; Newton, 36,645,100, increase of but 3631,890; Pulaski, 34,497,305, Increase 3767,210; Starke, 32,898,945, Increase 3833,275; White, 38,885,970, Increase 31,980,820. It will be seen from the above list that the least increase made in any of these counties was in Newton, the home of the Republican candidate for governor, who wants to be elected so he can "correct the tax laws," and whose fancy Hereford cattle he has been In the habit of giving in for assessment at scrub beef prices. Jasper’s personal assessment was increased 31,086,315 while Newton’s was Increased but 3631,890! Looks very much as if county was getting off pretty well, as compared with its neighbors, as it is. No doubt the taxpayers over there have patterned, after the e* ample set them by their gubernatorial candidate in listing their property for taxation. And they are getting by with it, too, at the expense of other counties- in the state.