and finally says something about it.
Although I have to say that I read the entire editorial and was somewhat surprised to see the ending take a different tone:
But give Brainard this much: His vision is turning Carmel from just another suburb into one of the nation’s most interesting and livable communities.
With all due respect, IndyStar, livable for whom? I can’t imagine what the property taxes are going to be like up there when the bill for all this comes due. I can’t afford to live up there now and I certainly don’t want to live up there then. It’s no wonder Carmel keeps trying to increase its tax base by forced annexation of neighborhoods that don’t want to have anything to do with it.
Folks in Carmel, you need to rid yourselves of this crazed lunatic of a mayor you have, and that soon. And scale down your imagination a bit. In the final analysis, you’re still just a bedroom community north of Indianapolis, and that’s all you’re ever going to be now that Westfield and Fishers have you hemmed in north and east and your dreams of annexation to the west are being thwarted in the courts.
Stop the wild spending while you still can.