Muncie Groups Being Annexed, too

This annexation issue is a statewide issue, not limited to Hamilton County. Look at the residents up in Muncie. Their town is using the same law that was written in 1999 to save Ft. Wayne from bankruptcy and using it to annex 1,628 residents. Interesting to read their website, similar issues and similar reasons for fighting it. Annexation isn’t about “rich people not wanting to pay their fair share”, it is much deeper and reaches much farther than that.

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Comments from old saynotofishers.com web site

Rachel at 10/26/2006 06:59 PM
After some digging around, I found several other groups around the state who are fighting the same fight that we are. A couple other websites are www.pnluther.com and www.stopannexationnow.com . The southwest Clay group in Carmel has also established a website. I have gotten in touch with many of these groups recently. More to come…

Steve S. at 10/31/2006 04:01 PM
It is actually about rich people not wanting to pay taxes, especially when they use the services of the area they are surrounded by.

Tom Britt at 10/31/2006 05:02 PM
Right Steve, all the people in Muncie are millionaires, too. So are the folks in Jeffersonville, Pendleton, and Anderson. It’s more about towns misusing a 1999 statute that was put on the books to save Ft. Wayne to grow their own tax base and COIT income.

DLMiller at 11/01/2006 08:14 AM
Steve, My neighborhood is in the Geist forced annexation area. Most of the homeowners are retired or close to retirement from blue collar type jobs. They are hard working people on a fixed income of mostly social security and small pensions. They could be your mother and father, or your grandparents. They know how to make ends meet. They don’t go on extravagant vacations or drive big cars. They live in their small, but adequate, 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, house built in the 1960′s. PLEASE, know what you are talking about before you speak. You seem to be focusing on the notion that every person within the Geist area is rich. I guess that these people that I have mentioned would consider themselves rich, but not by your standards $$$$$$$’s. The real issue is as Tom stated above.

Joe at 11/04/2006 08:18 PM
Steve – once again false statements, the people who use the Muncie sewer and don’t live in Muncie, pay for the use of the sewer via a sewer tax. Anytime you use a city service even if you don’t live in that city you pay for the use of that service. Just like us Geist people who pay for the use of the Fishers Fire Department. The only time you don’t pay for a service is driving on their roads and maybe going to a park, but then the people who live in that town drive on other town and county roads so it evens out in the long run. Our entire nation is based on the idea of sharing, otherwise you would have to stop at I-70 as you enter Ohio and buy an Ohio License Plate and pay an Ohio road tax. Now when I drive into Fishers in many cases its to spend money at a Fishers business. Since you don’t want me to use any Fishers services, maybe I should stop going to Fishers stores. One last question Steve is your real name Scott?

Stephen at 11/09/2006 10:44 AM
Joe – Your comments about “…maybe I should stop going to Fishers stores,” saddens me deeply. I own a retail establishment in Fishers. I am a resident of Fishers. I understand why the people of Geist don’t want to be annexed, Hell I wouldn’t want to either… but to throw out statements like, “maybe we should shop elsewhere” is like my 7 year old son saying he won’t play with Tommy because he hangs around Jimmy whom he doesn’t like. The Fishers’ businesses have nothing to do with the annexation by our town. I have given a lot of money to support your anti-annexation cause. I will continue to support the cause even though you are throwing statements on this site which hurt me personally. Just remember, Fishers businesses are run by families and people like you. Please don’t humiliate them by saying you won’t shop them. I do which you the best of luck in your endeavor. God Bless!