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New Jersey already ranks as the state with the second highest cost of doing business. New Jersey already has the highest property taxes, the highest per pupil cost, the highest auto insurance rates, and a cost-of-living that ranks at or near the top in the nation.
Kyrillos is calling on employers, workers and small business owners to join the battle to stop a tax that threatens thousands of jobs and as many companies already struggling to survive a recession during the last two years.
GORDON BISHOP
ON THE ISSUES
SENATOR KYRILLOS LEADS CHARGE ON 'JOB-KILLING' TAX HIKES! ~ By Gordon Bishop New Jersey State Senator Joe Kyrillos is standing up to Governor Jim McGreevey, who wants to raise taxes on businesses by a whopping 66 percent. Kyrillos is calling on employers, workers and small business owners to join the battle to stop a tax that threatens thousands of jobs and as many companies already struggling to survive a recession during the last two years. “I was disturbed to learn that Governor McGreevey’s latest proposal would impose additional taxes on thousands of New Jersey businesses,” Kyrillos said. “This policy will put our state at a competitive disadvantage, harm many small businesses and damage our state’s long-term economic growth.” The Monmouth County Senator denounced McGreevey’s administration for its “delay in revealing the proposal’s full details, (which) is also troubling considering the profound impact it would have on our economy.” Kyrillos urged the Governor to immediately disclose his plan in its entirety to give the public and the State Legislature ample opportunity for a thorough review. “Given the magnitude of the Governor’s proposal, I reiterate the call for the Senate and Assembly Budget Committees to conduct special public hearings on this issue,” the senator asserted. “We already have heard from the Governor’s designated experts and academic elite,” Kyrillos said. “It is only fair we hear from New Jersey’s employers, workers and small business owners, on whom this bill would have a direct impact.” McGreevey is making the same mistake as another Democrat Governor, Jim Florio. The first thing Florio did when he became Governor was to increase state taxes by $2.9 billion. That sparked a state-wide citizens campaign called “Hands Across New Jersey.” Working with the media, especially radio talk show host Jim Gearhart, the “Jersey Hands” group successfully took out an incumbent Governor, allowing the first woman Governor to be elected in New Jersey. McGreevey has already heard from the owners of one of the biggest new projects in the state’s history -- the $1.5 billion family entertainment and casino complex in Atlantic City, which would employ thousands of workers and generate tens of millions of dollars of tax revenues for the state. The Mirage Corp. said it is putting its plan for the “Disney Northeast” project on hold until the 66 percent tax increase is defeated in the State Legislature. Kyrillos, 42, chairman of the State Republican Party, is rallying support against what many taxpayers see as another out-of-control, “tax-and-spend liberal” in the Governor’s Office. Also fighting the tax increase is the United Taxpayers of New Jersey, founded by its state chairman, Samuel Perelli. The taxpayers organization is based in Cedar Grove, Essex County (UTNJ@AOL.COM). Republicans warned in last year’s election that McGreevey would become New Jersey government’s “twin Jim” -- Jim Florio & Jim McGreevey. The last thing New Jersey and a weakened 9/11 economy needs is a punishing tax on employers, workers and small businesses. New Jersey already ranks as the state with the second highest cost of doing business. New Jersey already has the highest property taxes, the highest per pupil cost, the highest auto insurance rates, and a cost-of-living that ranks at or near the top in the nation. Join the taxpayers revolt and help Senator Kyrillos and his team to protect New Jersey’s working taxpayers and their employers from further runaway taxes and inflation. New Jersey cannot survive four years of taxation and more bureaucrats and regulations under McGreevey’s liberal tax-and-spend machine. Gordon Bishop
Syndicated Columnist
May 30, 2002
Eatontown, NJ
Gordon Bishop, a national award-winning author, historian and syndicated columnist, is New Jersey’s first “Journalist-of-the-Year” - 1986 / New Jersey Press Association.
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