ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS HERALD
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New Jersey already boasts the highest property taxes in America, the highest automobile insurance and highest per pupil costs in public schools, plus a punishing income tax and a burdensome sales tax.
Corzine, a former tax-and-spend U.S. Senator who took office this past January, immediately increased the bloated budget from $29 billion to almost $31 billion.
New Jersey’s taxpayers and businesses have responded to the new Governor’s budget-breaking taxes by packing up and moving to the nearby states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and southern states that do not have soaring taxation.
Yes, the “best and the brightest” are moving out because they can, while those who can’t are stuck with the highest tax bills in the nation.
GORDON BISHOP
ON THE ISSUES
~ Published Atlantic Highlands Herald
6 July 2006
Some 57,000 residents of New Jersey, as well as hundreds of businesses, left the bankrupt Garden State last year because of excessive taxation and regulations.
And many more will be leaving New Jersey next year when the state’s new liberal-socialist Governor, Jon Corzine, raises taxes even more in one of the nation’s most taxed and regulated states.
New Jersey already boasts the highest property taxes in America, the highest automobile insurance and highest per pupil costs in public schools, plus a punishing income tax and a burdensome sales tax.
Corzine, a former tax-and-spend U.S. Senator who took office this past January, inherited a state budget of $29 billion. He immediately increased the bloated budget to almost $31 billion.
New Jersey’s taxpayers and businesses have responded to the new Governor’s budget-breaking taxes by packing up and moving to the nearby states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and southern states that do not have soaring taxation.
Yes, the “best and the brightest” are moving out because they can, while those who can’t are stuck with the highest tax bills in the nation.
Corzine’s predecessor, Governor James McGreevey, who resigned from office after he admitted he was having an affair with one of his male cabinet members, imposed a “millionaire’s tax” on any New Jerseyan making $500,000 or more annually.
So what are New Jersey’s millionaires doing? Moving out, of course. They’re moving to states that don’t have a millionaire’s tax or oppressive taxation and onerous regulations.
I was born and raised in New Jersey and grew up in Hackensack in the 1940s and ‘50s when the average person could buy a nice home and a new car without having to fork out thousands of dollars for the privilege of living in a new home or a new car.
Today, New Jersey is on the brink of bankruptcy, as the new Governor tries to find ways to pay for a $4.5 billion budget deficit.
Liberal Democrats control all the state’s Governor’s Office, Legislature and Supreme Court. How did New Jersey get into this financial mess? Because New Jersey is a deep “Blue State,” with 1.7 million registered Democrats, and only 900,000 registered Republicans.
The only way a conservative Republican can get elected in the corrupt Garden State is to run for public office as a “moderate” or a “liberal” Republican, which is an oxymoron. If you want to get elected in New Jersey, you have to sell out to the liberal Left that controls state government.
New Jersey voters elected two “moderate” or “liberal” governors in the 1980s (Thomas H. Kean, chairman of the 9/11 Commission) and in the 1990s (Christine Todd Whitman, who left the Bush Administration because the President was much too conservative for her liberal tastes).
So there you have it. The liberals have hijacked both the Democrat and Republican parties in a state renowned for its Tony Soprano-type corruption.
Is it any wonder the Islamic Muslims hate liberals and have declared war on America and its liberal allies?
The Muslims look at America and our socialist allies in Europe as God looked at Sodom and Gomorrah. God destroyed this sick, corrupt city and turned one low-life woman into a “pillar of salt” for looking at this biblical city in flames.
When a nation like America, founded on Judeo-Christian morals and ethics, is afraid to use the word “God” in public places, that nation falls into the hands of Satan.That nation is doomed to self-destruct. That’s where America is today.
Back to the Real World: New Jersey is financially bankrupt because of more than 50 years of liberalism. California and other urban states are not far behind.
Unless the taxpayers and voters wake up and return America to its traditional family values, led by Respect and Responsibility, there is no hope for our future as a Judeo-Christian society, as created by our founders more than two centuries ago.
America is leading the global war on terror because of godless, classless liberalism, which punishes success and rewards failure through the redistribution of income, which is Communism.
As Bugs Bunny would say, “That’s all folks!”
I’m outa here!!!
Gordon Bishop
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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