Stalemate on the Delaware
Who will blink first on the state budget stare-off? Gov. Corzine or Assembly Speaker Joe Roberts? Corzine insists he will veto any budget that does not include an increase in the sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent. Roberts says he will only accept a sales tax increase if all of the revenue goes toward property tax relief.
Senate President Richard J. Codey, who supports Corzine's plan, has suggested a compromise: use half of the revenue from the tax for property tax relief.
Here's my suggestion, to voters: Don't back anyone who supports an increase in the sales tax or any other tax when Election Day rolls around next year.
Senate President Richard J. Codey, who supports Corzine's plan, has suggested a compromise: use half of the revenue from the tax for property tax relief.
Here's my suggestion, to voters: Don't back anyone who supports an increase in the sales tax or any other tax when Election Day rolls around next year.
posted by Randy Bergmann at 12:12 PM
12 Comments:
why don't they just a pass a VETO-PROOF budget ...and put JON on his ass and send him back to wall street
Randy,
You've got something here!
The idea that government is somehow so beneficient that it wants to take your money in the form of one tax, just to turn around and give it all back in the form of tax relief elsewhere, is simply preposterous.
We've seen that tired old movie too many times before, with other constitutional dedications. If, for example, the Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) had "dedicated" all the gas taxes to transportation as it was supposed to, then how did the McGreevey/Codey administration bankrupt the TTF?
Why did Corzine have to backload a huge borrowing scheme to "restore" the TTF, one that will saddle our children with our debt when it comes due several years from now?
To get his unwarranted budget increase, the Governor just wants to play , "Gimmie Yer Dough," while Joe Roberts wants to play a variant of "Three Card Montie."
Codey's "compromise" might best be called "Two-Out-Of-Three Card Montie," because the taxpayers only get to see two of the cards. The third one just slips away with half the "new" dough under it.
So, we should just politely say to them all, "Here's a game for you folks . . . it's called 'No Card Montie.' No tax hikes, no budget increase . . . balance the budget with what you have and go home."
"And, if you don't, we'll take away your cards, and your cute little lapel badges, and your offices, and your staffs, and your happy journeys to Trenton and to National Conference of State Legislatures conferences, and so on, and so on, and so on . . ."
Message to Legislators:
"Just imagine the full catastrophy!"
I agree with you 100%. Let them get ride of some of the overpaid state workers. Isn't the Governor embarrassed that the prominent name in all this uproar about pay is Karla Katz, his former girlfriend!
Gov Corzine was headlined as that "Wall Street Wiz" in all the news media, well what did the taxpayers get? Another overpayed, overhyped, ex-Enron executive wannabe.
Gov can't controll his own party, he's a lame duck 6 mos into term,the man's a national joke
cut down on the state funded politician "staff offices" staffed my mostly friends and family!!
it's not just the career state workers at fault.
more proof KING CORZINE is grandstanding ....casino inspectors who keep tabs on the money and whose presence is required at casinos are NOT paid by the state but are pAID by the casinos themselves
OK skippy here's the deal this mess is between a governor who wants to raise the sales tax, and Democrats in the legislature that want to raise other taxes instead. No talk about cutting expenses. I suspect that if the State of New Jersey had retained Corzine's former company, Goldman Sachs, to find a solution, hundreds of cost cutting plans would have commenced immediately. what say ye JON
Ever wonder how we are able to save so much by shutting down state government? It's because we don't get a dollar's worth of value from a dollar's worth of spending. We save a buck, and lose (something less than) a buck in service.
Keep the State shut down all year.
There shouldn't be any "non-essential employees" anyway.
I left Jersey over 20 years ago. There is a lot about it that I miss, it will alays be "home". But I am in a pique of schaednfreude, you jack-asses keep electing leftist demoRats, and then you wonder why you gwt burned. Bwahahahahaha!
the governor orchestrated this "shut-down" to inflame the citizens into thinking we "need" the sales tax raised to get the
"shut-down" behind us!
the sales tax increase became the lesser of two evils.
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