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Today is my lucky day! The daily $5 lunch special at Lakeside Deli cost me a whole penny less, because Chris Christie's sales tax cut kicked in!
Yup, 'tis true. NJ's 7% sales tax is now, drum roll please!, 6.875%.
A whopping 1/8 of a percent less!
Which means last week's $5.35 lunch bill is now $5.34.
Of course my euphoria is short-lived, because we only got this massive sales tax cut in exchange for a 23 cent per gallon hike in the gas tax. And I've already been paying that new tax for a few months now.
See how that works? Raise one tax by 23 cents. Cut another tax by 1/184th of that much. Because, fairness, or something.
So I guess I should save this penny for posterity. Or until the next time I need to buy gas, whichever comes first.
Thanks Governor!
Posted at 14:12 by Chris Wysocki
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