tax

Trenton’s legislating machine is running in over-drive. The radicals who are running the engine of big government have opened the throttle of central planning and are bent on ramming through their agenda, regardless of disturbing economic indicators, skyrocketing taxes and the evacuation of job producing taxpayers.

The Swedish-style Paid Family Leave scheme is being railroaded through the legislature, despite its destructive effect on the state’s small business community.

It is clear that the big-government radicals running Trenton today will stop at nothing to advance their vision of an even bigger nanny state no matter what or who is destroyed on the way to achieving the “Common Good.” So much so that they will pass drastically flawed and dangerous bills that will destroy New Jersey’s competitive business climate in favor of emotion based, job destroying politics. This time, however, they got caught on a procedural technicality.

The state budget was passed June 23, more than four weeks ago.  But today, July 24, hundreds of towns are still waiting for a decision on extraordinary aid applications.  Final budgets cannot be adopted and tax bills issued without these awards.  The result is many towns are forced to issue estimated tax bills or float Tax Anticipation Notes (short term debt).  Both alternatives are costly to taxpayers and unnecessary if the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) would do their job in a timely manner.

With the highest property taxes in the country, the highest sales tax in the nation and the worst income tax of all fifty states, the question is what is the true cost to taxpayers?  The answer lies in the impact on our lives and our ability to invest in our own quality of life.  The collectivists in Trenton believe they have a right to take from those who are productive to give to those who believe they have a mortgage on the success of others.