We in New Jersey are being taxed to death literally! You pay various taxes when you are alive and when you die your estate pays death taxes, isn’t that wonderful? Governor Christie had hinted that if the Estate (Inheritance) tax were eliminated that he would support the raising of the Gas tax. Continue reading New Jersey’s Legislative Tax Conundrum
The Gas Tax is coming, the Gas Tax is coming to paraphrase that famous line in a poem titled “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by Longfellow. We all should be wary of politicians bearing gifts. The Republican Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick ceded the fact his party will pursue raising the tax on gasoline when the legislature meets for the Fall Session. Continue reading The Gas Tax is Coming
Governor Christie now says the Transportation Trust Fund is OK! He did this on the 101.5 FM Ask the Governor show. What all of the sudden has changed?
The uproar about possible raising of the Gas Tax to keep the Transportation Trust Fund solvent is over or is it? Chris Christie in answer to a question said that the issuing of unused bonds would keep the fund solvent through the end of the next fiscal year which is June 30, 2016. This is in the proposed budget, but not mentioned in his Budget Address of February 24th. Continue reading Christie now says the Transportation Trust Fund is OK!
Is London Bridge Falling Down in New Jersey and who is this group running an advertisement on the radio with the song “London Bridge is Falling Down?” They are pushing to raise the Gas Tax and they claim to be a coalition of regional chambers of commerce, contractors associations, labor unions, and former state transportation commissioners. Continue reading Is London Bridge Falling Down in New Jersey?
