Why I should be governor

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What would you do to combat high property taxes?

MURPHY In my first year as governor, I would fight to increase property tax rebates by 50 percent because property taxes are spiraling out of control and taxpayer relief is needed now.

Long-term, systemic financial discipline has been sorely missing in New Jersey state government. I will fight to put into place the necessary controls and reforms to ensure 100 percent accountability for our taxpayer dollars.

SCHROEDEr Details of my plan, Saving New Jersey Seniors, can be found at www.SavingNJSeniors.com. I encourage everyone to visit the site and learn more about my revolutionary and realistic plan to cut property taxes.

LONEGAN Trenton is the problem, not the solution. We must end project labor agreements mandating excessively high wages on municipal and school construction or maintenance projects. Public employee contracts whose total cost exceeds inflation should be placed on the ballot and state income tax proceeds must be distributed according to population.

CALIGUIRE First, we should cap state spending at the inflation rate and return any excess revenues to taxpayers as property tax relief. Second, we should use county government as a vehicle for sharing services between towns and school districts. If county government does not do this effectively, we should consider eliminating county government.

SCHUNDLER My property tax reform plan calls for reasonable spending caps on state government. It will require the state to cap spending at 1.3 times the rate of inflation and to send the savings achieved back to towns and school districts that also control their spending. Dramatic and permanent reductions will be achieved.

FORRESTER I will make government fiscally responsible by eliminating wasteful spending, requiring localities to do the same and by creating viable incentives and alternatives for the consolidation of generic services to provide more bargaining power for counties, municipalities and school districts.

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Pulled this from the Bergen Record.

Forrester has NO PLAN for property taxes.. And this past weekend Burlington County's leaders picked forrester because he has the best plan for Property Taxes. I dont get some of these people.