Posted on 03/18/2014 12:32:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
“It is probably the property taxes that are the biggest driver.”
Definitely; in my town (not wealthy by any stretch) people pay a small apartment’s rent worth of property taxes EVERY MONTH. People can’t retire here because you pay that long after you own the house outright, and freezing taxes for seniors doesn’t help when they are frozen at $10K+ on a one-family home. Not many people (unless they are retired government workers) can pay nearly $1,000 in property taxes each month when they retire, and you have to pay the higher taxes up front and get a rebate a year later...
“Where is FAT BOI?”
He has at least capped the increases at 2%; before him they went much higher, and many more people lost their homes because of it. Capping them helps you hang onto the home, but results in total loss of services (which we can’t afford anyway). To his credit, Christie’s policies have resulted in mass layoffs (which will continue as long as senior teachers, cops, and firemen don’t make concessions. When the senior gubmint workers get 3 or 4% raises, those will less seniority get pink slips; it was refreshing to see Newark NJ, which doesn’t pay its own workers the way “normal” areas of the state do (using our money instead), lay off 160 cops a couple of years ago. Pictures at the time showed a lot of large-assed gibsmedats in uniform, who weren’t about to put a dent in crime anyway; these jobs in urban areas have just become make-work to redistribute wealth.
More than half of those New Joiseyians vote for the ‘Rats who tax them into oblivion and then they flee/retire/escape to more conservative states only to keep voting for more ‘Rats. Maddening to say the least.
Most of the millionaires in New Jersey and elsewhere are retired public employees whose pensions are hidden from the taxman.
“More than half of those New Joiseyians vote for the Rats who tax them into oblivion and then they flee/retire/escape to more conservative states only to keep voting for more Rats. Maddening to say the least.”
If people look past the sensationalist BS about Christie, they’ll see he has all the right enemies here in NJ; he has fought the teachers’ unions (causing plenty of layoffs), and they are the backbone (and de facto owners) of the Democratic Party.
Sadly, it appears that states which export liberals tend to get even MORE liberal as the replacements are 80% Dem voting immigrants. California is probably the most striking example.
Of course they are! But from what I’ve seen they never learn. They just move to “my state” (Florida) and try to put everything in place the way it was in New Jersey. I dropped out Rotary because in my Central Florida town most of the members were from New Jersey and spend way too much time wanting to change us to be more like the state of confusion they had just left.
They really just don’t get it!
Oh noooooo! Say it ain’t so. We keep hearing from our liberal brethren that good people WANT to share their wealth.
It’s only bad greedy people who will do things to avoid taxes and that’s why the government must discipline them.
New Jersey Democrats must find a way to prevent them from leaving the state by force if necessary.
It’s the old Harry Chapen line; “you travel on 10,000 miles and still stay where you are”. They take their political dysfunction with them. I’d wish they stay in their Socialist Workers Paradise. Next move for us is to a more conservative state where we will fit even better...
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