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Thursday, 22 May 2014
A backdoor tax hike: Chris Christie axes this year's property tax rebates
So much for Chris Christie pretending he hasn't raised taxes. He's nixing the annual Homestead Rebate program, which of course is the same as a tax increase for about one million NJ residents.
Senior citizens, disabled residents and other homeowners who are among the more than a million people enrolled in New Jersey's Homestead program will not get their property tax relief this year.
That relief — in the form of a credit on annual property tax bills — is again being delayed by Governor Christie and his administration, who blame another bad budget year.
The latest delay means people won't see this benefit until May 2015 — nearly two years since the last time the tax-relief credit was available.
"When you're running out of money, you've got to manage your cash carefully," Christie said on Wednesday, defending the decision to delay the credit as part of a plan to reduce his proposed budget by $1.7 billion. "You've got to prioritize your bills and decide which ones you absolutely must pay."
I love how he uses Democrat-speak — returning our money is a "bill" he "must pay." Wrong! It's revenue he never should have collected in the first place! When government gets to decide how big our allowance should be each week that's not Liberty, it's tyranny.
If Chris Christie doesn't understand that, he's not fit to run for president.
Here's a thought. Last year public employees siphoned an additional $360 million dollars out of our wallets and Chris Christie added 1409 workers to the state's payroll. I don't know about you, but from where I sit New Jersey government was working pretty well before 1409 new parasites latched on to the public teat.
Ax them.
Their $360 million dollar cost is almost equal to the $375 million dollar tax
increase Christie is dumping on us. Take the additional $15 million out of
the Global Warming Climate Change slush fund or the UN Agenda
21 bike lane boondoggle. That's how you cut real spending.
New Jersey has the second highest tax burden in the nation. We shouldn't be
striving for #1.
Posted at 10:32 by Chris Wysocki
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