Until everybody understands that absolutely...the politician who promises the most "free stuff" to the masses will always win...and we who love freedom will continue to lose.
I am afraid that our "one man, one vote" system is going to do us in.
As serious a threat as radical islam is, it don't compair with the threat that comes from our own voting welfare class.
No politician dares to suggest that some restrictions be placed on the vote...say.....that someone actually has to have paid some income taxes....in order to vote.
We’re destroying ourselves from within.
We’re HELPING to bring about our own destruction.
The strange thing is that NJ has a $450B economy, and a $35B budget. Evenly distributed, the tax burden should not be excessive.
So a 6% Sales Tax on everything with no exceptions, including services, and a 2% flat State Income Tax with no exemptions or deductions would fund the budget. Less if some of the socialist programs were dropped.
A 1% Property Tax would provide $15B a year for public schools, police, firefighters, etc.
That is not an excessive local tax burden. The problem must be that the burden is so unevenly distributed that half the people are paying nothing and the the other half are paying double.