Politicians need to start running government not like a business, but like a FAMILY would. When a family goes short on cash or hits hard times, can they just invent new money? No. They have to scrimp, save, eliminate all unnecessary expenses, and cut budgets to the bone. How refreshing it would be to find one politician somewhere in this country with the wisdom to see that, and the stones to carry it out.
"I'm a blue-state conservative, trying to make my state a lot redder"
You are pulling that heavy wagon, time to kick some out of it, tough job I wish you luck.
Geez, don't get the vapors. It's only a proposal for a temporary tax surcharge. It'll go away once it's served it's purpose, just like many other taxes have in the past, for example...
uh,
never mind.
Democrat solution to any problem = RAISE TAXES.
You are not alone. At least my County is RED!!
"pain will have to be shared,"
Of course Brave Sir Corzine kept that little inanity under his hat until after the dopes elected him.
Somehow I think Mr. Three Hundred Million Dollars is going feel very little of that pain he proscribes for the rest of us.
Nothing wrong with this idea except, considering this is government we're talking about, it's at least 20 years ahead of its time.
what "internet downloads" is he going to tax? iTunes?
The draft suggests no specific numbers of layoffs, nor amounts for pay cuts or tax increases.
The left wing voters did this to us!
A majority of voters in NJ are caught in a wonderful cycle. Elect a liberal democrat, watch the liberal democrat raise taxes and increase spending, observe calmly as the liberal democrat gets caught up in corruption and/or otherwise runs the state into the ground, decry the corruption and denounce the liberal democrat, go to the polls next election and vote for, gulp, a liberal democrat. Repeat above.
I have a headache therefore I am going to beat myself in the head with a frying pan which will lead to me having a bigger headache so I will cure it by beating myself in the head with a bigger frying pan. . . .
I say let em raise taxes in Jersey! it will only bankrupt the state sooner and expose liberal financial policies for the folly that they are.
An excellent conveyance of the Liberal way of doing business.
Geeze, and I thought Massachusetts was a basket case. Too many people in the wagon and not enough people to push. So, they raise taxes and drive more people out of the state and so the cycle continues.
I used to live in Evesham in Burlington County--the town the President visited in a 2004 campaign stop (and every day, I'd pass by the high school where the Vice-President spoke). Good township schools, and I guess you have to have the taxes to pay for them (and I did vote for a tax to improve the high schools' infrastructure that was badly needed). When my employer in Lumberton was bought and subsequently shut down (did taxes play a part in the shut down? probably not--they kept the office in Sunnyvale, CA open), I ended up taking a job in Phoenix. The real estate taxes on my 2000 sq. ft. townhouse in Evesham were about 6 times the real estate taxes on my new 2600 sq. ft. house in unincorporated Pinal County. State income tax is lower as well, but I pay an extra percent in sales taxes. And it's 70 degrees here in the middle of Winter.
Well color me shocked.
I'm in heavily red Somerset County. We didn't elect him...
I'm getting ill.
I wish I hadn't seen this. I KNOW he'll play games with taxes. If he taxes clothing, I swear I'll go over to Pa. and make all my clothing purchases THERE and whatever else he tries to tax.
I didn't vote for they lying scoundrel but this:
"For the current budget, the team recommended a series of immediate steps including a layoff plan, across-the-board salary cuts and a mandated extra vacation week without pay for state workers."
I agree with.
THIS:
"The report suggested expanding the sales tax to cover clothing; tanning, massage, limousine and cable services; and purchases from the Internet, including music and software downloads. If those failed to produce a balance budget, the report said, Corzine should consider a "temporary tax surcharge." "
I don't.
I'll go out of my way to have things I buy over the internet shipped to an address not in NJ. I wonder about the "cable services" - bet he hates FOX news on cable. That might lock some into liberal manistream media news channels - ABC. NBC, CBS - get the picture.
NJ must stand fast against taxing the internet. It is the last refuge against government and they must keep their greedy hands off.
I curious, when all the normal people leave NJ, who will pay the taxes then?