NJ Christie

New York Times ^ | July 11, 2010 | http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/richard_perezpena/index.html?inline=nyt

[ml/nj]

Tom Kean is one of his mentors

I met Kean once. What a dim bulb he was!

ML/NJ

[Coleus]

I like to see someone who acts to cut government back to 1960s levels. We had schools, police, roads, snow plowing etc., then. In fact I cannot think of anything we didn’t have except an income tax and a 7% sales tax. >>>

that’s right, i bet most people in NJ don’t know that we operated as a state from 1776 to 1976 without an income or sales tax and our teachers, cops and firemen were paid and when retired, their pensions were paid as well - all without a sales or income tax!

[Coleus]

Show me the cuts, even a cut (and I don’t mean closing a State Park). I mean cuts in welfare payments, programs, employees, and pensions. I don’t mean freezing things at current absurd levels. Then I’ll be impressed. >>

We have to remember that it’s the legislature that spends the money and not the governor and we still have a democrat legislature. Christie had to reinstate some programs, e.g. the paad and the hispanic centers, that he cut in order to get the bill passed. Let’s hope the next legislature will be republican...and hope it’s not the same legislature that jim florio & chirstie whitless had, they were as bad as democrats..

[ml/nj]

Correction. We did have a sales tax in 1976. Here's the history:

2% - July 1, 1935 to June 13, 1938 - Hoffman (R)
3% - July 1, 1966 - Hughes (D)
5% - March 1, 1970 - Cahill (R)
6% - January 3, 1983 - Kean (R)
7% - July 1 , 1990 - Florio (D)
6% - July 1, 1992 - Florio (D)
7% - July 15, 2006 - Corzine (D)

Source: http://taxpayersunion.org/new-jersey-sales-tax/

As a point of comparison, I would point out that most of the corporations probably make less than a 7% profit on the sum of the sales of their products at retail.

ML/NJ

[ZULU]

Never had the pleasure although he was at some events I attended.

I think he thinks he is an aristocrat and above the peasants.

He would have made a great Tory.

[Coleus]

thanks for the info, i never knew that... i guess byrne instituted only the income tax for property-tax relief..I remember the slogan “one term byrne” only to have him reelected again.. the voters in nj are big suckers and deserve everything they get..

I noticed that christie and the republicans never mentioned rolling back corzine’s 1% increase in the sales tax. At least in the 1990’s the pubs rolled back florio’s increase.

[Coleus]

6% - January 3, 1983 - Kean (R)

another thing you never hear in NJ, the great and mighty tom kean, member of the WASP, blue-blood, RINO political elite, instituted the mandatory $18,500 per year minimum salary for all teachers in NJ, which then allowed all the other teachers’ and administrators’ salaries to be bumped up for parity and the rest is history, no turning back. The feminists in the female-dominated teaching profession had tremendous influence on him.

Today, the property-tax payers in NJ are paying for republican Tom Kean’s biggest mistake.

I wonder who controlled the charlie mccarthy strings on kean during the 911 hearings?

[majormaturity]

I AGREE..IT’S JUST A BEGINNING...I PAY FOR EVERYTHING MYSELF ALSO