local government | NJ Tax Revolution

Home

Posts related to local government

29 April 2010 - Do You Know Where The Money Comes From?
If this sounds a little like I wrote it to a local email list, it’s because I did. I’d like to reflect on where we get the money we spend on education. The “average taxpaying household” pays property taxes of about $12K per year. If that household has an average child in the school system, [...]

18 July 2008 - Free Cars and Gas for State Workers
Each morning as I make my way to work, I typically spot between one and four state owned vehicles heading toward the cluster of state offices in Trenton. Now, we all know that there are certain jobs in the state where it is more cost effective to provide a state vehicle than to reimburse employees [...]

12 July 2008 - A Society of Whiners!
Former Senator Phil Gramm sparked a major controversy this past week by saying that we have become a nation of whiners. Now, of course from a political standpoint, this was a completely stupid thing to say. McCain did the expected two-step backwards and threw Gramm under the bus. Obama responded with his typical snide and [...]

04 July 2008 - Paul Mulshine on "Unaffordable, Unfathomable Housing Plan"
“Each town’s COAH committee has a dozen or so members, so when you multiply that by the 566 towns in New Jersey, you get … lemme get out my calculator. Oh yeah, you get an incalculable waste of time and money.” No doubt. You really do need to read the whole thing. And when you’re [...]

27 June 2008 - Off-topic: Local Response to 2nd Amendment Ruling
This isn’t about taxes, but I thought I would share a letter that I sent to my Mayor and Assemblyman, John McKeon, today. It’s in reference to his press release about the Supreme Court second amendment ruling. Mayor / Assemblyman McKeon, I read your press release this morning and would like to respond, as a [...]

17 June 2008 - More on the Center for Fathers
Special thanks to WBGO‘s News Director, Doug Doyle, for forwarding the press release about the Center for Fathers to me. I can also now find a tiny amount of coverage for the program (a few of these are essentially the same article): here, here, here, and here. Here’s the press release: Mayor Booker Tours Newark [...]

11 June 2008 - Happy Fathers’ Day from Cory Booker
UPDATE: I apologize for the incoherence of what follows. Special thanks to Doug Doyle, WBGO’s news director, for sending me the press release that sparked their news item (now published here), and to Cephas Bowles, WBGO’s General Manager, for taking the time to discuss funding for public radio in the comments section below. I’ve slightly [...]

09 May 2008 - Why Business is Fleeing the State
It’s like watching a car wreck in slow motion. Yep. And he (Paul Mulshine) gives a very nice summary of how the wheels have been coming off.

08 March 2008 - New Jersey Mayors Cry Foul
A series of articles hit the news today after small town mayors got a look at Governor Corzine’s revised aid figures as a part of the state budget. It seems that everyone wants to reduce government as long as it isn’t theirs. From a NY Times local article: “We expect to have faith in our [...]

18 February 2008 - NJ Government Gone Wild – "The Soprano State"
I couldn’t help but borrow the Trentonian’s front page headline today as it is too good to pass up. The headline refers to a story about a book written by Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure entitled The Soprano State-New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption If the book is half as good as the article about it, [...]

Recent Posts

Meta

NJ Tax Revolution is proudly powered by WordPress and the SubtleFlux theme.

Copyright © NJ Tax Revolution