Corzine gets his tax increase
Well, ya knew this was coming. I was just hoping our vacation from state government would last longer than six days. So were state workers, no doubt, who will be paid for all the time off, as everyone knew they would be.The deal will increase the state sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent and use half the $1.1 billion that it will raise to help lower property taxes, which are among the highest in the nation. It allows the possibility that, in future years, the entire increase will go to property tax relief.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! It's possible the whole increase will go to property tax relief. Hahahahahahahaha! You guys are killing me.
"I honestly think that in the end with the agreement that we have reached, our state and more importantly our citizens are all emerging as winners," said Senate President Richard J. Codey.
Oh, fer sure, fer sure, Dick. Anytime you can agree on a 16.666 percent tax increase, it's a win-win for the state, and of course in our free democratic society, the state is the people, so all of the people emerge as winners.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
"This is a very, very fair resolution: good for the state, good for the taxpayers," said Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts Jr., who had been the main opponent of the sales tax hike.
I'm really having a tough time conjuring this here, Joe: Tell me again about how a 16.666 percent tax increase is good for me. And can we have rabbits, too? Huh, Joe? Please?
Corzine shut down non-essential government operations on Saturday after the Legislature failed to pass a budget by the July 1 deadline.
More than 45,000 state workers were furloughed ...
... starting with the 80 Assembly representatives, the 40 senators, and the gorram governor. A sorrier lot can't be found outside Washington, D.C.
posted by B.W. Richardson at
8:10 PM
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Excuse me if I sound like Rip Van Winkle, but the last time I was awake to what these idiots do Corzine had bought a Senatorship for $6 million bucks or some ungodly amount, how in the hell did he become governor - or does he have an evil twin?
Hold it! Does this have something to do with the former governor stepping down because...oh, yeah, he resigned after the election or something so he could appoint a demorat or something. Or was I dreaming all this?
He's evil enough to be twins, but after buying the senatorship in 2000, he ran for governor last year. This is his first budget - he loves spending other people's money. You're thinking of Jim McGreevey, who stepped down before the extortion and sexual harrassment charges could catch up to him.
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