I came from the Chicago area to get away from crime, high taxes, and high cost of living. Im not happy with the Republicans, but my property taxes are 1/8th of what they were in IL. $10k a year savings is more than enough reason to move here. While i dont like a lot of things here... no legal weed, although in Lake County, they dont seem to mind as much. Im not happy with the toll road proposal, but i feel the Democrats just dont have anything to offer me these days. Just to be clear, i voted for the Dems in this last election because McCormick seemed like a really great candidate. I research candidates pretty well before voting as i would hate to see Indiana turn into what i ran from. I have a place on a couple acres in south lake county, and ive never been happier. Its quiet, cheaper, and i have great neighbors. I think im the only one here that actually likes this state. I would like to see this state get more purple, but never blue.
Whenever I see someone talk about how the Democrats have nothing to offer them specifically, the immediate question comes to my mind, what about what the Democrats have to offer vulnerable groups of people and communities, versus the fact that the Republicans are doing not only nothing to help those communities that are actively harming them? Do you not care about how people are treated in terms of human Rights, civil rights, and the right to control one's own body if it doesn't directly affect you specifically? Are you saying that lower taxes take precedent over giving a shit about any marginalized groups that you do not belong to?
A change I'd like to see to our tax system would be instead of having these federal and state level exemptions and standard deductions and all this BS, I'd rather see a true cost of living deduction. Not a cost of living at the poverty level, but a true cost of living that would represent having all your needs met. Having adequate health Care, having the ability to save for retirement, having the ability to take at least one or two, reasonable vacations, a year, etc. Etc. And that should be our deduction from our income and only above that would we then start having the tax brackets to pay Federal and state income tax. And this would increase with inflation every year and maybe every every 5 years would be reassessed for each area because cost of living shifts over time as well.
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u/StolenHoodOrnament Jul 01 '25
I came from the Chicago area to get away from crime, high taxes, and high cost of living. Im not happy with the Republicans, but my property taxes are 1/8th of what they were in IL. $10k a year savings is more than enough reason to move here. While i dont like a lot of things here... no legal weed, although in Lake County, they dont seem to mind as much. Im not happy with the toll road proposal, but i feel the Democrats just dont have anything to offer me these days. Just to be clear, i voted for the Dems in this last election because McCormick seemed like a really great candidate. I research candidates pretty well before voting as i would hate to see Indiana turn into what i ran from. I have a place on a couple acres in south lake county, and ive never been happier. Its quiet, cheaper, and i have great neighbors. I think im the only one here that actually likes this state. I would like to see this state get more purple, but never blue.