Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — What Taxpayers Will Find Out. [ARTICLE]

What Taxpayers Will Find Out.

During the next three weeks, says the Indianapolis Journal, the people of Indiana will be paying their taxes. If they remember the amounts paid last year they will find that they are paying a much s sum as State taxes this year, for the reason the State fax last year was $1,023,160 andi this year it is $2,249,654—an increase of §1,226,494, or more than ’ double.. Some tax-payers will be a good deal surprised at the increase, Among the most surprised will be those readers of the Sentinel who were informed in the most emphatic manner that their taxes would be no higher in 1892 than they had been in recent years on the same property. They will ascertain that either the Sentinel, did not know or was imposing on] them. Many fjtx-payers will find their State taxes 50 per cent. 1 higher, while in some cases they'

■ ■ ' i will be doubled. If the provi-; sions of the Democratic State law had been adhered to the amount required by the State Asfould be doubled.on the same property. Many tax-payers will find the increase confined chiefly to their State tax. If the same ratio of increase extended to counties and cities people would find their taxes a grevious burden.' The chief increase, however, is confined to State taxes. Was it necessary? In part; under the democratic policy, expenditures have been increasing, and a large debt was accrued. The democratic leaders had to increase the taxation to stop the increase of, debt and to pay currrent expenditures. Thera was, however, no need of more than doubling the State tax. But they not know, and so they blundered, and, as a result, people are paying more than double the State tax they did last year. If a republican legislature had perpetrated such an inexcusable blunder as this doubling of the State tax in any State in the Union, the party ticket would have been snowed under in the next election. Public meetings would hive been held to denounce it, and the democratic press would have set forth the enormity of the outrage in poster- type. Republican papers are making very little noise about the blunder, consequently the surprise and indignation will come wlien the pepple go to pay their taxes. If public spirited men at the several county seats desire to render the people an excellent service, they can do it by standing near the places where Ape ril taxes are paid and showing the people how the State taxes -have been needlessly increased by a blundering legislature and its advisers.