New Jersey TaxpayersStuck With Another $4 Billion Debt
By Gordon Bishop (07/11/08)
New Jersey, already in debt to some $75 billion, faces another close-to $4 billion debt because its Governor, Jon Corzine, refuses to put the multi-billion-dollar "mortgage" issue on this November's election ballot so the taxpayers can decide whether they want to saddle property owners with even more oppressive taxation.
The Garden State’s liberal government doesn’t want voters making decisions on how their taxes should be spent.
Under our Constitution, aren’t voting taxpayers supposed to be making these decisions – after all, it’s their money?
New Jersey is under a liberal dictatorship where working taxpayers and voters are told they have no business interfering with an out-of-control, runaway, tax-and-spend state government.
Welcome to a communistic form of government in New Jersey, which already is the laughing stock of America because of the infamous “Jersey Joke.” Yes, we make fools of ourselves in New Jersey simply because we allow our liberal-socialist-Marxist government do what they want, when they want by ignoring the voters who put these “crooks” in public office to represent “the people.”
It’s no wonder some 57,000 New Jersey residents are leaving this state in 2008, with another 75,000 expected to flee the Garden State next year because they no longer want to be the most taxed state in the nation.
I’ve lived my whole life (70 years) in this once great Garden State. We have a proud tradition. Our state slogan is “The Crossroads of the American Revolution.” Ironically, that revolution was a tax revolt against the King of England who was imposing taxes on the earlier settlers in America’s original 13 colonies.
So much for a victorious revolution over taxing tea known as the “Boston Tea Party.” In those days, the colonists really had an anti-tax society. In a word: Freedom. There were no property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes and countless other taxes and fees before the Revolution.
Yes, we won the war, but it didn’t last long. Taxes started creeping and crawling across an expanding nation, and by the 20th Century, taxation and liberalism had taken over America. We became a liberal socialist society.
And by the looks of America today, we don’t seem to care. Liberalism has reached has reached its highly level.
Running for President in this year’s election is a liberal Democrat whose promises, or political platform, are loaded with more taxes than any presidential candidate in American history.
Hold on to your wallets, folks, the Tax Man cometh!
After examining the numbers on Wall Street, I’m not too optimistic our country can roll back liberalism and return to a society founded on fiscal conservatism: Smaller government, smarter economists.
After all, don’t ‘We the People’ – some 300 million of us – deserve the same freedoms as those who lived before the 20th Century who were not burdened with property taxes, income taxes, sales taxes and endless other taxes that fill up hundreds of pages of tax laws?
George Washington may have won the Revolutionary War, but Karl Marx won today’s wars with his communist philosophy of “redistribution of money,” so we all make the same amount of money, regardless of your status.
What we have today is a “Welfare State” with horrendous “entitlements” for everyone, including those who don’t work.
Frankly, we’ve lost America, at least the America that existed before the illegal federal income tax became law in 1913. That’s right! The income tax is illegal because it was not ratified by the 38 states in 1913. So much for law and order.
The politicians and bureaucrats have become nothing more than greedy ‘government thieves’– stealing our money by creating corrupt laws and ignoring those laws that protect “the people.”
I always like to end my columns with, “God Bless America” – but nowadays so many people don’t believe in a God that it no longer has any meaning.
Gordon Bishop
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