re: #43 lawhawk

Christie’s campaign was to do something about the insane property taxes here in NJ. That resonates throughout the state since Corzine ran and won his first term on the grounds of doing something about.

At the end of his first term, property taxes are higher, and we now have a higher sales and use tax to boot. Higher taxes, higher state spending, and Corzine was contemplating higher gas tax, higher tolls, etc.

They didn’t. The anti-Corzine sentiment won the day, and Christie now has to clean up the mess that is the NJ state budget.

Unfortunately, neither candidate was proposing to do away with the myriad layers of officialdom that New Jersey is composed of. The duplication (and resultant high cost) of government is the major cause behind high property taxes in the Garden State, yet no governor can even begin to propose for local municipalities to combine services, lest they be tarred and feathered by the same voters upset with property taxes! It’s much like the insanity behind Prop 13 in California, only with slightly less dysfunctionality…