Well pack my bags and watch out garden state. The influx of folks moving there should be YUGE! NOT!
I am thinking it would be smart for the citizens to pass a TABOR type amendment to their state constitution.
Just the Democrats moving money around from Red to Blue again
Surplus during the lockdown? Yeah, right. I wonder from where they got all that extra tax revenue.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”
― Orwell George, 1984
How many votes will $500 buy? Enough to purchase NJ? $1400 delivered GA to the D column
I wonder if the change is enough to knock it out of first place as the state with the highest effective property tax rate in the US? (https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-02-23/these-states-have-the-highest-property-taxes)
Yup.
Meanwhile the high inflation and low interest rates are destroying their money.
Buying votes for next year, eh?
How about sending an equal percentage of tax surplus back to those that paid income tax. I know, I know, it’s a radical idea, but it just might work and be fair to the taxpayers.
Surplus due to bailout. And don’t worry that “surplus” will be a deficit by next year. Fed government is an enabler for states like NJ.
But the money from Biden can’t be used for tax breaks. /s
Tax breaks? Must be election year. They’ll be gone soon enough and the crushing increases will start next spring, no doubt about it.
A surplus means they have taken too much in the first place.