Posted on 10/12/2020 12:35:42 PM PDT by Family Guy
Hi Everyone,
I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me to help with how to vote on the NJ ballot questions.
The NJ Republican website is worthless.
#1 regarding marijuana legalization is a no-brainer. It's a no.
#2 regarding providing a property tax reduction for peacetime veterans is a little more difficult. I am always in favor of lowering taxes, and I also believe, as did Churchill when he quoted Milton, that "they also serve who only stand and wait". So I'm leaning towards yes on this. I think that enacting property tax relief for the elderly is more pressing. On the other hand, NJ is not going to reduce spending to pay for this, so my own taxes are going to go up. It'll just accelerate my exodus from NJ, I guess.
#3 is the most confusing. It wants to change the NJ Constitution to delay redistricting if the census is delayed. I'm leaning against this because it seems to me that they should be able to deal with this problem short of permanently changing the state Constitution. Some democrat organizations are against this, however, which makes me question what I should do.
Voted no on the final question
Excluding peacetime veterans from the benefits will inevitably be arbitrary and unfair, cause waste in the form of more complex rules to generate and administer, and probably cause lawsuits and legal costs to defend.
We always have undeclared wars going, plus dangerous conflicts short of war. ( the Cold War confrontations and shootdowns, secret military assistance, submarine and air intelligence ops, etc.)
There are many dangerous military duties which are still dangerous in peacetime. On the other hand during wartime, some safe jobs are as safe as peacetime.
Not every sacrifice is physical or due to enemy action.
For those reasons I would support eliminating the distinction.
I live in NJ and I’m a Republican. On the marijuana question vote yes. That is unless you feel criminals should continue to profit from it and there should be no way of preventing under age kids to be able to continue to have access to it.
On #2, yes. That’s a real no brainer. On #3 No. It’s rank gerrymandering.
NO IT ISN'T!!
All government compensation should be paid when a service is given. There should be no additional compensation once the service has ended. NO PENSIONS. NO SPECIAL TAX BREAKS. NOTHING!
ML/NJ
You're right - "no" is the brainless choice.
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always vote NO on the changes to a state constitution
we need less government not more
Thanks SisterK.
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