Corzine Already Seeking More Tax Money
It was just days ago that Gov. Corzine heralded the passage of a bloated state budget as unprecedented, fiscally responsible.
This budget takes us through a turning point and confirms our commitment to a common sense principle of finance, often ignored, that we should spend no more than we take in.
Of course this fiscally responsible state budget did not address school construction nor did it address infrastructure. The fiscally responsible state budget has nothing about the $3.9 billion Corzine is urging the legislature to commandeer from taxpayers.
Gov. Jon Corzine yesterday pressed the Legislature to revive New Jersey’s school construction program to the tune of another $3.9 billion.
No, that isn’t in the fiscally responsible state budget. Nor is the the threat Corzine issued taxpayers this morning on Good Day Philadelphia about funding infrastructure:
I’m not anxious to move forward with a gas tax. I really think we’ve got to find another way.
First of all Gov. Wall Street, the word to use is eager not anxious. Besides that, threatening to raise gasoline taxes if you do not get your toll increases just may be the issue that sinks your re-election. New Jersey voters are ultra-liberal, but they already know they are being gouged and aren’t going to accept much more.
They refused you on both issues previously. (Remember dear reader, Corzine’s first act as governor was to indebt us for 30 years to fund the Transportation Trust Fund for five years. Time is beginning to run out on that (of course, after the gubernatorial election) and he needs to find another shot of money to keep things going.) Now you’re pitting one tax against the other expecting the taxpayers to pick the lesser of two evils.
What was responsible about this monstrous budget you just signed? Bridges, roads, and school construction cannot continue to be funded outside the budget.
Also blogged on this date . . .
- LUCUBRATION? - 2008
- Eight Caches While Running Errands - 2008
- Money! Money! Money - 2008
- Philadelphia Merchants' Exchange - 2007
- Scoring: Bunt Foul on the Third Strike - 2005
- Another Chink in the Armor - 2005
- What is your Bacon number? - 2005
- Baffoon Pilot - 2004
- Sea Breeze - 2003
- Lazy - 2003
- Cape May Point Lighthouse Trek - 2002
- Grateful Dead w/ Los Lobos - 1989
- Grateful Dead & Little Feat - 1988
Tags: budget, Corzine, election, New Jersey, pathetic, Politics, Schools-Construction-Corporation, Transportation-Trust-Fund