Corzine vows veto of any budget plan without sales tax hike

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[BJClinton]

Just trim the kick-backs to organized crime, er, labor and that deficit will vanish.

[Spaghetti Man]

Truth be told that when Whitman left office and when McCreevey left there were about an additional 10,000 employees (we don't call them workers) on the state payroll. Corzine would get allot more support if he at least approach the unions and worked for some concessions. Biggest fear is that he'll get his tax hike and then next year when the union contract expires, the budget will be balanced. then any chance of concessions by the union will be dismissed. Yep, NJ voters are complete idiots.

[XRdsRev]

47% of New Jersey voters didn't vote for Corzine. Do we deserve this too ?

[longtermmemmory]

of course if you mail order, you get free delivery and NO sales tax...

[spikeytx86]

Of course the rich Dem's are all for a sales tax hike, because if they need to buy any big ticket items they can just go to sales tax free Delaware.

Correct me if I am wrong but are not the democrats the one's who decry a national sales tax or vat on progressive and fairness grounds, yet when they want a new program on the state level they are the ones who increase the hell out of them?

[John D]

47% of New Jersey voters didn't vote for Corzine. Do we deserve this too ?



You should have worked just a little harder getting out the vote.

[Obadiah]

Absolutely dead on!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Democrats cutting each other to shreds over which taxes to raise...since I don't live in Jersey this will be fun to watch!

[XRdsRev]

Statewide New Jersey politics is governed by the cities (Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, New Brunswick, Trenton and Camden). Those cities have huge populations including large percentages of minorities who are completely loyal to and controlled by democrats.

Republican areas generally are the much less populated suburban and rural counties in the central, northwest and extreme southeast of the state. Not only are there fewer voters but getting them to the polls is much more difficult (in the cities, you have polling stations every few blocks in some of the rural areas your polling station might be 10 miles away).

Please don't lecture me on getting out the NJ vote. We try every election but you can't force people to the polls. Even this fall, you'll see some diehard NJ conservatives (including a few here on FR) stay home because the Republican candidate (Kean) is not conservative enough for them. Like little children, they'd rather stay home and pout because a so called RINO is running thus helping insure that democrat Menendez wins. I might not like Kean that much but you can be darned well sure that I'll get off my a*s, hold my nose and vote Republican at least for a small change in NJ & Washington government.

[DAC21]

Hell even in Calif., Mass and NY you will find a Republican in the Gov. office. NJ is just far gone with UnionBots and entitlement Xhores

[Cable225]

And let's not forget that even when we get a candidate worth voting for (Bret Schundler)...we can count on him running the most ass-backwards campaign you've ever seen.

Even Forrester managed to shoot himself in the foot on a few occasions. A Republican would need to run a close to perfect campaign to win statewide office in NJ - the inner cities are just too much to overcome.

Example - my district is almost 80% Monmouth County, a strong Republican area. However, we also have Perth Amboy and Iselin, larger cities in Middlesex County. Who is our Congressman? Frank Pallone (D-Extreme Left). It's not a question of getting out the vote - there aren't enough votes to get out.

[RetSignman]

I just keeps getting worse and worse for those smart voters, doesn't it?

[RetSignman]

You're still living in New Jersey, aren't you? I left NY in '76 and never looked back. They don't pick my pockets anymore.