Please do your part to implement the following Watchdog Indiana Action Plan in support of the constitutional property tax caps in Senate Joint Resolution 1.
1. Contact your State Representative. Phone, E-mail, or send a letter to your State Representative to let him or her know that you support constitutional property tax caps and that you want SJR 1 passed promptly. Information on how to identify and contact your State Representative legislators can be found above.
2. Contact Indiana House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer. Let Speaker Bauer know that you support constitutional property tax caps and that you want him to allow a prompt vote on SJR 1. Speaker Bauer can be reached by calling (800) 382-9842 or (317) 232-9600. His E-mail address is H6@in.gov. You can write to Speaker Bauer at (a) Indiana House of Representatives, 200 W. Washington St., Indianapolis, IN 46204, or (b) 1307 Sunnymede Ave., South Bend, IN 46615. (By the way, also ask Speaker Bauer to meet with Watchdog Indiana. Watchdog Indiana is the leading citizen advocate for constitutional property tax caps. If Speaker Bauer continues to refuse to meet with Watchdog Indiana, then he is admitting that he cares nothing about the desire of Hoosier working families for a more fair and affordable state and local tax burden.)
3. Send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. This is an effective way to show your support for the constitutional property tax caps in SJR 1. The E-mail addresses and online forms for 138 Indiana newspaper editors can be found at http://www.finplaneducation.net/letters_to_the_editor_via_e-mail.htm.
4. Invest $5.42 in a television ad campaign. A very effective cable TV ad campaign could be undertaken throughout the state if one of every three Watchdogs receiving this E-mail Update puts a 42-cent stamp on an envelope and mails a $5 check to Watchdog Indiana. The focus of this positive ad campaign would be to (a) educate Hoosiers on the importance of constitutional property tax caps and (b) motivate Hoosiers to let their General Assembly legislators know that SJR 1 must be promptly passed. Your Watchdog Indiana contributions are anonymous as long as your total contributions are less than $100 a calendar year. The Watchdog Indiana mailing address is 2625 Countryside Drive, Lebanon, IN 46052. Contributions to Watchdog Indiana are not tax deductible.
APATHY IS NOT AN OPTION. You must ACT NOW if the constitutional property tax caps in Senate Joint Resolution 1 are to be saved! Otherwise, the single-interest property tax spenders will win and we will soon have NO property tax relief to show for the latest statewide sales tax increase. The constitutional property tax caps in SJR 1 are necessary for a more fair and affordable working family tax burden.
From Watchdog Indiana, a grassroots taxpayer friendly organization.