FUN FACTS
As we debate property taxes in Indiana, here are a few facts about local government.
There are 2,370 property-taxing units of government many of which overlap.
There is one unit of local government for every 2,600 Hoosiers.
Indiana has 92 counties.
Indiana has 1008 townships.
Indiana has 564 cites and towns.
Indiana has 293 school districts (quite a few of them have fewer than 1000 students).
Indiana has 240 library districts, 172 special districts and 65 conservancies (I have no idea what those are).
Indiana has more government per capita than the state of California that has nine times the people.
Maybe we are debating the wrong subject.
