Fundraising Day, Saturday December 1st

We can fight and win and not be forcibly annexed by the Fishers Town Council.

But, fighting is expensive and good lawyers don’t come cheap!

On Saturday, December 1st, the GUO Block Captains will be making the rounds and asking for contributions.

Because we have been successfully fighting against forced annexation for two years, we have saved every Geist homeowner an average of just over $2,000 so far.  That’s, on average, $2,000 you haven’t had to send to Fishers to fund their boondoggles.

If everyone gave 10% of what they’ve already saved–$200—we’re well funded for the fight.

If you’ve given—thank you!  If you haven’t, please do. (click here)

Ask your neighbors if they’ve contributed—we’re all in this fight together and we should all contribute to the cause and not let our neighbors carry the burden.

See you Saturday.

Mitch Makes It All Go Away?

Does the governor’s tax plan make all of this moot? 

So far, there are now three or four tax plans being bandied about the state legislature.  Hopefully, something positive in terms of property tax relief will occur this legislative session.  The end product though, is anybody’s guess.

Nonetheless, it’s pretty likely that the state will either increase other taxes or establish new taxes to make up for the loss of property tax revenues.  And, it all can’t go to business; that would particularly hurt smaller cities and towns that don’t have a large number of large businesses to carry the burden.

Whatever they do, you can bet that if we’re annexed our taxes paid to Fishers will be substantially higher.

For example, if the state provides for a local income tax:  if annexed, we’d be paying income taxes to Fishers at whatever rate they establish to make up for the over $2.4 million in lost property tax revenues from Geist (that’s $2.4 million year one of annexation, it goes up after that to over $3 million by year five).

Under this example, if we incorporate into our own towns, the income tax rate would be much lower (just like the property tax rate is much lower) because we have a good tax base and we don’t need to pay for all of the issues caused by out-of-control growth and grand schemes.

So, will whatever the state legislature comes up with make annexation moot?  Not very likely.