Abdul Hakim-Shabazz recently blogged that there may be retribution directed at those vocal Marion County opponents of property taxes when the reassessments are released. Ed Angleton reports that he is seeing such retribution:
I attended all the rallies, filed an appeal, and spoke unkindly about the ability of the Center Township Assessor's Office to assess their way out of a paper bag. Our neighbors did none of these.
Now comes the reassessment.
My assessment dropped from $256,000 to $232,000.
My neighbors dropped from $225,00 to $141,300.
Futhermore, I can point to two other neighbors who exprienced similar decreases, one for $193,00 to $114,000 and another that went from $254,400 to $170,200.
So, did the petty little tyrants choose to drop the hammer on my wife and I for speaking up?
You bet they did.
Petty little tyrants, indeed. This is government at its worst- when decision-making is arbitrary and capricious, when it is directed by revenge.
It is when I learn of stories like these that I think back to days gone by, when the oppressed tarred and feathered unjust officials, or sent them out of town on a rail, and think that such action was wholly justified. The apparent lack of ethics on the part of the Center Township Assessor's Office is staggering, and should be met with some punishment. We'll start here in the Court of Public Opinion, but somewhere, some higher authority should be slamming a hammer down on the Assessor's Office.
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Now?
Just when we could use the tar for repairing storm damaged roofs? Tarring and feathering unjust officials would create a crisis in tar and feather supplies nationwide.
Better would be to wake up and vote them out. Oh wait, that would involve critical thinking and abandonment of partisanship.
Maybe the tar & feathers are a easier methodology. And, I would think much more emotionally fulfilling.
This November we do have the opportunity to delete the Center Township Assessor's office. We should not waste the opportunity.
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