Jacob Stewart from IndyStar joins to discuss eliminating township governments
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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| 0:29.2 | today. |
| 0:30.1 | Casey, there's nothing that I love more than when other people in the media agree with me. |
| 0:34.8 | Yes, that's been happening a lot too. Well, we've been ahead of the curve for years here on this program. A new call about, a friend of the program, saying something we've said for a very long time. We've got a lot of wasteful government. Yes, Indianapolis has too much government. Indiana has too much government. Yeah, our old pal Jacobs here from the Indy Star, fabulous new column out. Now, this is specifically about township government as it relates to Marion County, but I think you can extrapolate this across the state and how much money it could save taxpayers if we just got rid of the township government. Jacob Stewart from Indy Star joins us now. Jacob Stewart, hello? Yeah, thanks for having me on. Okay, so you said the thing. I'll let you put it in your own words. Township government, especially in Marion County, but again, I think you can take it across the entire state. Kind of seems wasteful. Kind of seems redundant. What's the word I'm looking for? Redundant. Wasteful? No, redundant. Redundant. Redundant. Thank you. That's what I was looking for. Redundant. |
| 1:31.3 | There's so... What's the word I'm looking for? Redundive? Wasteful? No, redundant. |
| 1:27.9 | Redundant. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:29.4 | That's what I was looking for. |
| 1:30.7 | Redundant. |
| 1:31.3 | There's so many files in here, Casey. |
| 1:33.0 | Sometimes in this brain, they sometimes just merge together in words that don't exist. |
| 1:36.2 | Did you get one file fall in the back of the cabinet there? |
| 1:38.0 | Redundant. |
| 1:38.6 | It seems redundant. |
| 1:39.7 | Tell us about it. |
| 1:41.6 | Yeah, sure. No, exactly like you said, township governments are wasteful and duplicative. |
| 1:45.9 | They provide services any other unit of government could. |
| 1:50.3 | And they're really just a leftover from a time when people had horse-drawn carriages |
| 1:54.6 | and had to, you know, walk to the nearest government unit. |
| 1:58.8 | And nowadays, you know, they're way too small to provide, you know, just look at fire departments. |
| 2:05.1 | I mean, you've got to spend so much money on equipment alone. |
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