PIO COSTA & DIORIO: SCHAER & SCALERA CAN’T BE TRUSTED TO OPPOSE GAS TAX HIKE

For Immediate Release October 13, 2009 

Contact: Kevin Leary 908-447-9172  

PIO COSTA & DIORIO: SCHAER & SCALERA CAN'T BE TRUSTED TO OPPOSE GAS TAX HIKE

Rutherford, NJ - Assembly candidates and small businessmen Carmen Pio Costa and Don Diorio today said that when Governor Corzine asks the Legislature to support his new gas tax proposal, Democrat incumbents Gary Schaer and Fred Scalera cannot be trusted to vote against the tax hike.
 
"New Jersey families pay the highest property taxes in the nation and many are out of work and struggling to pay their bills with unemployment at a 33-year high," Pio Costa noted.  "So how do Democrats propose to solve this problem? By proposing a gas tax hike."

"This is the failed approach that has gotten us into the mess were currently face in the first place," Pio Costa added. "We need tax relief and fiscal responsibility, not more taxes and more debt.  Only with new representatives in Trenton can we change course."
 
Pio Costa and Diorio pointed out that Democrats in the Legislature have voted to approve 115 new taxes and fees over the past eight years, many of which were imposed under Governor Corzine.  This gas tax hike would make for 116.
 
"In the past, when Governor Corzine and the Democrat leadership have proposed tax hikes, our opponents have voted to support those proposals," said Diorio. "The voters of this district can rightly suspect that, if given the chance, they will support this gas tax hike as well. Let's not give them the chance."

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