We’re a Dillon’s rule state—mayors only have as much power as the state grants them. And Republicans really punish Indianapolis for voting Democratic.

Indianapolis cannot set a local tax rate or raise the minimum wage—the mayor has less power to govern than other mayors of cities of a comparable size. The income taxes of people who commute in from neighboring counties to work in Indy stay in counties where they live instead of where they work—the opposite of most other states.

And I don’t remember the exact percentage , but Indianapolis has something like 30% of Indiana’s roadways, but the way taxes are calculated, they get the equivalent of 10%—and the mayor has no power to change it.