I would like to see how Lonegan responds to this. This is coming from a life-long bureaucrat who has been working in the State budget system for decades. In other words, he was part of the crew that has been going along with all this stuff. He is against Lonegan ...

If there is ever a reason to vote FOR Lonegan, this is it.

"The Lonegan "Flat Tax" scheme is nothing short of an assault on the middle class and senior citizen population of New Jersey."

This is just a typical scare tactic that seniors and hard working families are going to have to pay more- right now with the one of the highest tax rates NJ can't even pull in the revenue that the budget is based on- PA works under a flat tax and NJ residents are heading there-- consider it an oasis not an assault.

The only assault will be the status quo -- punishing hard working families by forcing them to continually pick up the tabs of NJ's social programs- cut those- gain revenue- and STOP bleeding taxpayers dry!

They don't look at other states that are run more efficiently, somerset. Instead of looking at how a successful state prioritizes it budget, Corzine asks citizens for ideas, so he can then say that no one could do any better than his inept administration.

"a single or flat rate system, a simple review of the numbers shows this plan to be a flat out loser, destroying the middle class and seniors while rewarding only the most affluent."

Actually Lonegan's idea is fair. It would the reward affluent .. small businesses? Businesses who in turn higher more workers, growing the private sector for the first time in 10 years, rather than the filthy stinking rich public sector. Lonegan's plan is to reduce the flat tax every year after firing pointless state workers, abolishes COAH, puts a nail in the coffin of A rail tunnel, universal preschool, clears the NJ court of judges who overrule voters who voted to stop borrowing... and of course fight our grossly over funded abbott districts.

A Flat tax wold be offset by decreased taxes down the line, not to mention wage growth rooted in real demand instead of fake government "green" jobs the state invents.

Surely this jack off peter lawrence didn't care about hurting the middle class when it came to Corzines implementing his toll hike scheme, sales tax increase, paid leave payroll tax or all manner of his big government projects that are sure to kill the state even further.

flat tax in Russia has been successful:

http://www.heritage.org/press/commentary/ed032403.cfm

And PA has 3% flat tax while Lonegan is calling for a 2.9% tax to be reduced to a 2.1% in the third year.

Peter Lawrence is clearly looking to return to state government under another administration under someone else with the name, Christie.

He was part of the original treasury team that helped develop the Whitman pension bond debacle.

So for him to trash anyone's tax plan, even Corzine's is about as hypocritical as it can get.

I only wonder what tresury position Chis Christie pomised him under his administration. This is anything but an unbiased opinion.

Agree or disagree with Lonegan's flat tax proposal, at least he HAS a tax proposal to tout on the campaign trail.

Christie's tax plan is nothing more than the kind of stock blather every politician spews when they have no innovative solutions. Come on Chris. Give me something to work with here. You're killing me big man!

And Chris, if the best surrogates you can muster to carry your water on this site are Alan Steinberg and a spectacularly unspectacular career bureaucrat like Peter Lawrence, you need more help than I thought.   

Snake Pliskin?  I heard you were dead.

DeMicco, Lawrence, Roginsky, et al have prepped themselves for a race with Christie, who they know they can beat.

Lonegan is the wild card they can't beat and they know it.

Lonegan is the person they don't want to ru against.

Vote Column "A" - All the way!