Taxes

Four Republican senators held a news conference today to express their growing unease at the failure of Governor Jon Corzine to honestly address plunging tax collections.

The state treasurer said today that revenues have come in 3.1 percent below projections so far this year. If collections continue at that pace, the state will have a $1 billion deficit this year. The estimated budget deficit for next year is $8 billion to $10 billion. The governor is again doing too little. too late, then calling himself a man of action.

Senator Steve Oroho, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, said that given the news that New York state faces a growing fiscal crisis, it is alarming that Governor Jon Corzine stubbornly refuses to regularly update revenue collection numbers for New Jersey, as other governors have done in the past.

Senate Republican Budget Officer Anthony Bucco and Senator Steve Oroho, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, criticize Governor Corzine for refusing to regularly update revenue numbers despite repeated requests for openness and transparency.

At the first debate gubernatorial debate televised by NJN last Thursday none of the gubernatorial candidates proposed a credible plan to deal with the state's high tax burden, runaway spending and projected $8 billion budget deficit for fiscal 2011.

Yet all the media attention and buzz by the pundits after the debate has been focused on Chris Doggett's proposed $3.9 billion property tax cut that would be offset by extending the state's 7 percent sales tax.

Had Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz and Barry Bellin been in the Assembly to protect your tax dollars and vote NO, retirees would not have had taxes increased starting in 2005.

A tax proposed by unions and liberal Democrats could prolong the recession in New Jersey. Governor Corzine should do the right thing and speak up against this job-killing tax, Senator Joe Kyrillos says. 

BARRY FUNT SIGNS TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE

OPPONENT HAS VOTED FOR 116 TAX INCREASES

LIVINGSTON, NJ – Twenty seventh District State Assembly candidate Barry Funt today announced an important commitment to taxpayers. Barry signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising that he will “oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.”

One of the major collectivist goals of the Democrats is nearly complete.  With President Obama calling for a so-called public option in his health care reform package, the Democrats' goal of a single payer, universal health care system is on the horizon.

Although President Obama it is not advocating a government run, single-payer system at this time, the Democrats' long-term goal has always been to establish health care as a "right" with the federal government as the only insurer in the nation. Team Obama realizes it cannot achieve its universal healthcare goal in one fell swoop, that's why its strategy is to get to the "Promised Land" incrementally.

Just the Latest to Express Her Disgust with Democrats’ Tax Increases?

According to reports on politickernj.com, Democrat Jersey City councilwoman Nidia Lopez may be the latest casualty to lose her job because of high tax policies embraced by Governor Jon Corzine. Nidia Lopez won election to the Jersey City Council despite possibly having unlawfully claimed her residency as Florida – a low tax state where New Jersey residents frequently move to avoid high taxes. If true, the councilwoman would almost certainly be removed from her position.

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