Conservative Donnybrook

It appears that the Mayor of Indianapolis is proposing a reduction in the County Option Income Tax. A couple months ago, the State relieved the city of the burden of financing the police pensions and child welfare. As a result, the county no longer has any need to collect the tax which funds those items. Unbelievably, it appears this tax may actually go away. If so, I have to think this might be the first tax that was ever imposed in the history of government that was subsequently eliminated when its raison d’etre ceased to exist.

Maybe I missed the story, but I believe we are still paying the “temporary” tax to build the Hoosier Dome aka RCA Dome aka soon-to-be parking lot for Lucas Oil Stadium (if someone knows, I’d love to hear). If so, maybe Mayor Ballard could dig through the bag of other “temporary” taxes to see if there are others that have lost their justifications.

On the heels of the people of Marion County somehow voting to increase our property taxes (see my rants here, here, here and here) by allowing Indianapolis Public Schools to levy on our property with a bond issue which is not subject to the proposed constitutional caps, this is indeed refreshing news. You can only imagine how frosted I was that the bond issue was passed. I was slightly depressed about Obama’s win; but, downright livid about the bond issue.

Kudos to Mayor Ballard. More like this.

According to one parish priest in South Carolina, parishioners who voted for Barack Hussein Obama should not present themselves for communion until they have repented, confessed and received absolution for their votes.

According to the Rev. Jay Scott Newman:

Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president. Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.

Judging by the yard signs in my neighborhood, such a stance at my parish would trim 20 minutes off the mass time. It is good to see one priest stand up against the grave moral evil of our time. If more priests were to take the issue seriously, we may be able to make inroads against this modern holocaust.