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January 14, 2009
New Jersey And You: Screwed Together
Lawhawk has got a perfect round-up of yesterday's blathering
The state budget is bigger this year than it was last year; and the upcoming fiscal year plans on being no different. All the talk about cuts is just that. They're not actually cutting budgets, but reducing the increase in spending year over year. It's still increasing, but just not as much as various groups have wanted.This is a shell game, and state taxpayers are paying through the nose.
Read the rest for other choice tidbits. What a complete disaster our state is, and there's no real relief in sight. Sure, a lot of folks are putting their hope in Christie, who may in fact turn out to be good if he in fact gets the nomination. But evidently he's run awful campaigns in the past and this column from December makes a brilliant point about what he'll be facing if elected
And then there's the fact that Christie would be likely to base his campaign on the fight against corruption. That's a great credential, but the real problem in New Jersey is not what the Trenton crowd is doing illegally. It's what it does legally. The bankrupt pension fund, the out-of-control spending on urban schools and the taxes that have business fleeing the state are almost entirely the result of programs that are not only legal but in some instances the direct result of state Supreme Court rulings.
(emphasis added by me)
We've got to radically overhaul Trenton.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at January 14, 2009 09:34 AM