Price gouging? Chris Christie is already talking about raising taxes to pay for Hurricane Sandy

Raise gas or ice prices more than 10% during a hurricane? Chris Christie will go after you with the full power of the law at his back.

But afterwards? Afterwards he'll talk about raising taxes, because there's no such thing as price gouging when government needs money.

C'mon Christie! Your new bestest buddy Barry would beg to differ. He promised his peeps a magic money tree. They voted for a magic money tree. You can't be dissing Prez BO! That's like racist or something.

Yeah, one hug from Dear Leader is all it took to turn Governor Awesome into Robby RINO, tax hiker extraordinaire. Remember that tax cut Christie promised us earlier this year? Kiss it goodbye.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he isn't sure whether he'll still pursue a tax cut that was the centerprice of his economic strategy because Hurricane Sandy may have hurt state revenue in October and November.

Government's first reaction to any crisis is universally predictable — raise taxes. A private business can't pass their extraordinary costs onto consumers, that's price gouging. That's illegal. But there's no law against government passing along its costs. Nosirree! Government can rape the taxpayer with impunity. Because they have no decency, and no accountability, and there's nothing we can do about it anyway.

Maybe I shoulda voted for Corzine. At least he was been upfront about his intention to screw me over.

UPDATE 15 Nov 2012 14:35:
Linked by Larwyn. Thanks!

And Gator Doug wonders if Christie is on a path to metamorphosis into a full-blown Democrat. Well maybe, that'd be one way to freeze Cory Booker out of challenging him next year.

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