Posted on 06/29/2016 8:55:02 PM PDT by panhandle67
TRENTON, New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday touted an anti-tax crusader's endorsement of a proposed 23-cent- per-gallon gasoline tax hike along with a sales tax cut, sweeping aside objections raised by Democratic leaders in the state Senate and voicing confidence that the measure would be passed in that chamber.
Christie all but dared lawmakers not to act on his plan during a statehouse news conference, a day after the Assembly passed the plan to pay for a $2 billion a year transportation trust fund for eight years. The fund runs out of borrowing authority Friday, and Christie's last-minute proposal resulted in the Democrat-led Assembly scrapping a vote on their own plan.
Christie said lawmakers have been complaining for months that he wasn't engaged enough on the issue. And now that he is, they don't like his proposal, he said. He called on them to approve his plan during Thursday's session.
The increase would send New Jersey's current gas tax of 14.5 cents per gallon from second-lowest in the country behind Alaska to roughly equal that of Connecticut, which has the sixth-highest at 37.51 cents, according to the Tax Foundation, an independent tax policy research organization
Christie, who ran a failed presidential campaign and now supports Donald Trump, signed a pledge not to raise taxes sponsored by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform group. The organization endorsed Christie's proposal Wednesday in a statement released just as Christie's news conference began.
Christie said the group backed the Assembly bill "saying that it represented tax fairness as well."
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Two Mooslim suck-up buffoons. Well, actually, Krispy could suck-up Norquist with one suck, I believe.
[In short, although it still hits residents, this helps collect tax for New Jersey from people who do not currently directly pay it. It is definitely a net benefit for income-producing residents. ]
You’re not looking BEYOND just paying more at the pump. This tax will raise the cost of FOOD and other products and services that rely on gas-powered transportation!!
Food prices are already outrageously and unnecessarily high!
We will tolerate no tax increases Chris. You are now out of the Administration. We cut taxes only except on hedge fund cheats. You capitulated. Bye.
Indeed.
Grover Norquist, Tax-Shift Activist!
Of course they will. Once politicians have a tax in place, it only ever goes up.
Of course the following is bull crap but- a consumption/sales tax is preferable to a slave labor tax on income. A specific consumption tax is more preferable to a tax on all consumption everywhere. Other than that CC and GN are loons for feeding the leviathan no matter the logic.
“He said the sales tax cut from 7 percent to 6 percent phased in over 2017 and 2018 will cost about $1.3 billion, while the gas tax hike is estimated to bring in roughly the same amount. The result will be a net neutral tax on residents, he said.”
The gas tax will be easier to raise going forward.
Christie gave us Trump.....
I understand; no worries.
It disgusts me that as gasoline prices were falling recently our Democrats here in NJ basically asked, “Why pass this savings on to consumers? We can add taxes now and they wouldn’t notice it much...” (due to market conditions).
The idea of us little people having a little extra in our bank accounts bothers them greatly; they have decided what our standard of living should be, and having a little extra discretionary income instead of forking it over to them is messed up (to put it nicely).
Even worse, the income and property taxes raised are in part funding a group that is increasingly distinct and separate from those paying those taxes. NJ is seeing a battle now between often childless “makers” squaring off against breeding “takers” about school funding (about 75% of our sky-high property taxes); this battle is increasingly drawn along racial lines as well as class, and the working taxpayers are fleeing rather than just accept slaving away for others’ kids...
“Christie gave us Trump.....”
The fatass did destroy Lil Marco, but I would not go as far to say that he “gave us” Trump.
How does the New Jersey Democrats veto a bill? I thought Gov. Christie is the only one with the power to veto.
I say cut the sales tax and don’t raise the gas tax, cut spending.
A big reason why Corbett is unemployed and Commie Wolf is now governor.
Please keep this asshat off the ticket.
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