Saw this over at Abdul’s Indiana Barrister:

Although lawmakers heard testimony last week on the elimination of property taxes, Skillman says the Governor is open to the idea if lawmakers can make the numbers work.

The Lt. Governor also says there would be no short-term harm done if the General Assembly were to pass SJR-8, a Constitutional amendment that would abolish property taxes in Indiana, because it would be four to five years before the measure would go into effect if it passed as second general Assembly and the voters approved it in a statewide referendum. Skillman says the measure could always be pulled back at a later date and she also reminded Hoosiers that SJR-8 would do nothing in the near term to reduce their property taxes.

A trial balloon for a short-term alliance between the proponents of property tax reform, and the opponents of property taxes?

Given that the solution advocated by abolitionists like Eric Miller will not be realized any time soon, and will require some measure of short-term reform and legislation anyway to ease the pain on homeowners, it’s entirely possible that these two groups could find themselves in an interesting (and potentially uneasy) coalition in the upcoming session.

How good does Daniels look if the General Assembly ends having passed both a constitutional amendment abolishing property taxes and some sort of shorter term property tax reform plan along the lines of the one he advocated?

More importantly, what does that do to the raison d’être of a potential Eric Miller candidacy for Governor?

The plot thickens.

This post is also available at Hoosierpundit.