New Jersey Taxpayers Stuck With A Double-Dipping Government
by Gordon Bishop (4/1/08)
A survey sheet is making the rounds among New Jersey voters and taxpayers in an effort to “recall” Governor Jon Corzine after only two years in office.
Why?
In a word: SURCHARGE!
The liberal governor is imposing a surcharge on all existing taxes for what he claims is an effort to balance the state’s soaring budget, which is already at the $33 billion level. The next state budget, which goes into effect July 1, will be at least $35 billion.
New Jersey taxpayers are literally drowning in taxes, long having the highest property taxes in the nation, the highest cost-of-living in America and highest motor vehicle insurance premiums, not to mention the highest per pupil cost, with some urban schools costing taxpayers $22,000 per pupil. The national average is $7,000.
How did this happen to what was once the proud diverse and dynamic Garden State?
In a word: LIBERALISM!
Liberalism is an ideological political system that believes Big Government – also known as Big Brother – will take care of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
Liberalism likes that idea.
To independents and conservatives, liberalism is the death knell of a self-sufficient society. We take care of ourselves, meaning our families and those truly in need, such as the physical and mentally handicapped who really aren’t capable of helping themselves.
Liberalism is fundamentally socialism, where the state (central government) controls our population.
That is a bad thing to do because it destroys one’s accountability and responsibility in a free and open society. Under liberalism, we are no longer responsible for any consequences caused by one’s bad decisions or judgments.
Wherever socialism or Marxism have been imposed on a free people, such as the Soviet Union, Cuba or dictatorships throughout the world, it failed – and failed miserably.
Politicians today have become “politically correct,” or PC. They are constantly promising voters and taxpayers they will do this and that and just about anything government can do for the people so they can elected to public office, and then reelected, reelected, reelected…so that the incumbents can remain in their cozy and profitable public office for as long as they want.
Is that what voters and taxpayers really want? Isn’t this what America has become? A nation of liars and empty promises?
As a result of rhetorical liberalism, the “entitlements” for the people – from Medicaid and Medicare to Social Security and countless other socialist programs – are on the brink of bankruptcy.
The two party system in America is what’s bankrupt. Today’s politicians refuse to bite the bullet and downsize all levels of government, from the federal and state levels, to the regional and local levels.
So we continue to dig ourselves into a bigger and deeper hole, with no solutions in sight to ever get out of this bottomless pit.
No one’s standing up and telling the truth to the American public: “We’re out of money, folks! The 1960 dollar is now worth less than a dime. We’re sorry that happened.”
Is it too late to turn a society around to once again be able to stand on its own feet and honestly work its way out of debt?
The federal government just bailed out a huge Wall Street investment firm, costing the taxpayers $35 billion.
Should the government be in the business of bailing out billion-dollar corporations with our money? Isn’t that illegal? This kind of reckless gamesmanship should become a lawsuit before the United States Supreme Court.
Why do we let our government get away with these financial disasters? Who’s minding the store down there in our nation’s Capital?
We know who they are? They occupy the United States Congress and the White House. They’re literally getting away with grand larceny at the highest level! All of them should be indicted, tried and convicted for undermining our economy and our sinking political system.
What are we waiting for?
(Gordon Bishop is a ‘Who’s Who in the World’ award-winning author, historian, syndicated columnist and New Jersey’s first “Journalist-of-the-Year” – 1986/New Jersey Press Association.)
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