Does it make sense to tie tax bills to some macroeconomic index? What if the library district or school district needs more money or even less money to operate in a particular year? Taking the elected board members of each taxing body’s authority away created local control erosion. Which reflects a fair way? Is it a prudent system? Our system receives complaints every time the tax bill arrives in our mailbox. Does this still reflect a prudent way to ask landowners to pay their fair share, rather than throwing sums of money across a broad area of need based on some index like inflation? The current system is rooted over centuries from England. It is where land ownership is on a pro rata basis and tied to how much land you own. Large powerful politicians determine inflation indexes. The power brokers bad decisions tend to make the local elected taxing bodies the scapegoat for other politician decisions.