Taxes Will Raise in Marion Co. After Tonight's City Co. Meeting

**Jason Hammer** (0:00)
Oh, it's going to be a magical night. Magical, I tell you, at the City County Council meeting, because your favorite Democrat pals are going to vote to raise your taxes tonight. I'm Jason Hammer, Brian Alvey filling in for Big Nige. I think Nige scheduled to be back tomorrow.
But tonight's the night.
The very Democrat-heavy City County Council. They're going to move forward with raising your vehicle excise tax, which means you're going to be paying more for a minimum of five years. Now, I say minimum because that's how long the state will match the money coming in. That's why they're doing this. But I spoke to some counselors earlier today, and they said, there's no plans to take away this tax after five years, despite the state stop matching. So what's here? They're voting on this tonight. It's going to happen. These Democrats on the City County Council, and maybe a squish Republican or two, I hope not, but they're voting to raise your taxes. They're calling it the vehicle excise tax.
So in theory, imagine paying 20 bucks for this fee right now. It could go to 100 bucks per person now.

**Brian Alvey** (1:21)
So they're going to institute this with no end state. It'll just be in perpetual every year.
They're not going to put an end state on it where it expires with the matching from the state. They're just going to let it run. Of course they are. They're going to set it up. Then you get used to it. That's how all these taxes and fees come about and then never go away. When's the last time we see the tax go away, Jason?

**Jason Hammer** (1:46)
Oh, Brian, you and your drugs.
It would take probably something like Governor Braun to have an executive order to suspend something, but that's not really going away. It's a temporary pause.

**Brian Alvey** (2:01)
Well, we're talking about this property tax statewide, everything. You know, and, you know, we're hearing all this. Oh, the Republicans can't get on the same page. They end fighting. They said, well, it looks like the Democrats do it, too, just in a different type of taxation at the local Indianapolis City County Council level. They, you know, this is all all Democrats fighting.
And then the big thing is, is apparently hogsets not for it. Hogsets going to be against it. Hogsets going to jump on what I would consider a conservative Republican position. And is this just jockeying for the next election?

**Jason Hammer** (2:38)
It totally is, because behind the scenes, Joe Hogsets knows that these roads are beat up under his watch. And if they can get, quote unquote, funding to fix them, which is a load of crap in itself, right? He's going to look like the hero if he runs again and wins. But more than anything, Vop Osley, who is a long time leader of the City County Council, he's going to make him out to be the bad guy.
Because even though Vop did his dirty work and sniffed his butt for a number of years, did so many shady things, including kicking out the accusers of Joe Hogsets and his buddy Thomas Cook's sexual harassment scandal, kicking them out of meetings when they were airing their grievances. Now, because Joe Hogsets, a human cigarette butt and can't get another job, he's going to throw Vop Osley under the bus and tie him to this tax increase.

**Brian Alvey** (3:33)
You know, thank goodness I don't live in Marion County. So this is, you know, not my monkey's, not my circus, right? This this won't affect me directly whatsoever, which it will trickle into other things. It always does. But the funny thing is, is you've got the city council.
I completely disagree with what they're they're they're trying to do, but they're trying to solve a huge problem that by and large, the mayor has to take responsibility for these horrific roads that have just deteriorated and gone to absolute trash since he took office. But he's now going to argue with them, say, no, no, no, your solution isn't the right answer. I've got the answers. I have the if you had the right answers, why are they in the shape they're in? I'm not going to look for the solution to a problem from the person that created the problem, and I really don't think the money has been the problem.

**Jason Hammer** (4:26)
According to the Indy Star, so far, $3.2 million from speeding tickets from the cameras in Indianapolis have been paid out $3.2 million. Now, those dollars go to the thing called the General Fund. Now, the General Fund is designed to do things around the state of Indiana, fixing the barn at the fairgrounds or all these other little projects. But it could also go to fixing the infrastructure. Jacob Stewart, writer for the Star. Now, I used the Star twice here because I want to point out, this is not a real conservative-friendly outlet, even though Jacob Stewart is the conservative writer.