For more than two hours Friday evening, District 33 Indiana state Rep. J.D. Prescott presented his bill to eliminate property taxes and replace them with a 7% services tax to area residents.
The approximate 50 people had lots of comments, suggestions, questions and concerns about how his bill, if it makes it through the General Assembly, would not only affect them personally, but also the small businesses, county, towns, townships and emergency services. The consensus appeared to be, however, that something needs to be done because the current system is broken.
Prescott was introduced by state Rep. David Abbott from District 18, which includes the two northeast townships of Kosciusko County…