Has Corzine Been Watching Out For Us?
According to TaxFoundation.org New Jersey only gets 57 Cents of the tax dollars sent in to the Federal governmant back. That ranks a lowly 50th among the states. Believe it or not New Mexico gets a whopping $1.99 federal tax dollars for every dollar it's residents send in.
What exactly our our representitives doing? More specifically, what did Jon Corzine ever do in the Senate to warrent a run for the Governorship. Did he author legislation that brings in more tax dollars? Can we find a rider to a bill that he authored that brought money back to the New Jersey? Sadly, I can't find it.
I can find Chemical Security Act, Healthy start Acts, Sarbanes-Oxely help, Resident Work Hours. Oh, and he is the lead Senate sponser of the massive land grab called the Highlands Conservation Act. To be fair, he did get initial funding for a study of a new Hudson River Tunnel.
All in all, I can find little that Corzine did to bring money back to NJ.
posted by RBM @ 10:26 AM
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We've posted of the 57 cent return on investment many times. No one really seems to care, except maybe Ken, Sluggo and Jim. And of course you.
We never could figure out why the NJ Democrats, Corzine, et al vote against income tax cuts at every opportunity.
Representing NJ, a high cost-of-living state and as you point out receiving only 57 cents in return for every dollar we send to Washington, they should be leading sponsores for such bills. Party over the people is all we can figure.
Perhaps someone can ask the financial wiz and former businessman, Corzine why he continually votes for such lousy tax deals for NJ’s taxpayers. He’d make a dandy Governor, wouldn’t he
You know... I never understood why blue states like NJ, NY or CA voted Democratic. Red states really do get the most Federal money. It's takes a special kind of stupid to keep sending your money to the other side.
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