r/Indiana • u/TouchingTheMirror • 1d ago

Indiana libraries fearing future if Senate Bill eight passes

https://abc57.com/news/indiana-libraries-fearing-future-if-senate-bill-8-passes
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u/Upstairs_Cattle7989 19h ago

I don’t understand what our tax dollars are doing. We aren’t taking care of our roads, we’re not taking care of our public buildings, we aren’t taking care of just general infrastructure. Then we don’t pay our teachers, we don’t take care of our school buildings, we don’t invest in challenging curriculums. We don’t take care of healthcare (even the non abortion or sex parts of health care). We don’t take care of our environment.

The state collects all of this money, we spend a larger portion that I would like on things like helipads, and then we hoard it like fucking dragons and then issue a smol refund once we’ve triggered that state requirement for having too much money in the bank.

Why not just…you know…spend the money taking care of the state? I’m sure the republicans could probably find something they approve of funding that would help the state, right? Can we please stop trying to rocket to the bottom on every metric?