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sylvester the investor
Citizen
Username: Mummish
Post Number: 105
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:25 pm: | 
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Wake up poor people. You elected Mr. Corzine and what is he going to do. He is going to impose a tax on clothing, raise the gas tax and possibly raise the state income tax.
Who is this going to hurt, not those that make $150,000 a year, it going to hurt you, joe blue collar worker making $30,000 year.
Lest we also forget how this will affect the businesses that benefit from the NYers that cross the river to shop tax free in NJ.
Here's a novel solution for you dems. Cut the fact out of NJ government. Run the state like a business and cut out all the waste. Cut the workforce by 20%.
Oh, wait, there is a better soltion. Tax the poor. When will you people learn that the republican party is looking out for you, while the democrats only pander to your vote while keeping you repressed.
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CageyD
Citizen
Username: Cageyd
Post Number: 571
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:38 pm: |
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GOP is looking out of us...REALLY!!!
THey do this by cutting student loan aid by $13 billion this year,
by cutting services to the poor to pay for a tax cut for the rich,
by imposing unfunded mandates on our educational system that force budget cuts and tax increases at the local level,
by creating a medicaid drug program that prevents the US Govt from being able to negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies - thereby guaranteeing we the tax payers have to pay the highest prices in the world for our drugs through our taxes,
by keeping middle class AMericans from buying cheaper drugs in Canada.
As for NJ, Christie Whitman GOP darling was governor during one of hte most prosperous times in our nation's history, she left the state with a $3 billion deficit - the largest per capita in the Nation at the time - one that will be paid for by the working men and women of the state either through tax increases or cuts in services.
.... oh my dear sylvester the inventor of mis information.... even the most uniformed American no longer buys the GOP version of reality. |
CageyD
Citizen
Username: Cageyd
Post Number: 572
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:42 pm: |
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Cut the workforce by 20%...let me guess, Head Start teachers, social workers, drug rehabilitation couselors, environmental inspectors, public defenders, oh, yea sylvester, those GOP ideas are just what the middle and lower classes need.
Taxes are not evil - they are what help a society remain civil, educated and safe. Some of us - called democrats - believe that a society is judged by how it treats its most needy and helpless citizens not by how many rolex watches and Hummers people can buy |
sylvester the investor
Citizen
Username: Mummish
Post Number: 107
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 4:46 pm: |
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"Taxes are not evil - they are what help a society remain civil, educated and safe. Some of us - called democrats - believe that a society is judged by how it treats its most needy and helpless citizens not by how many rolex watches and Hummers people can buy"
Obvioiusly you fail to see the math behind the tax increase here. Poor people are screwed. You can't pass these taxes and tell me you are looking out for the poor. Can I have some of whatever it is you are smoking. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2503
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 5:25 pm: |
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He cares so damn much about the poor. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 2504
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 5:38 pm: |
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I just did some reading on the leaked, preliminary proposals. I would say there isn't enough info to warrant the level of Alarm exhibited by Sly.
Unless I'm missing something, isn't enough info for anyone to say the increased income tax would affect the poor. I think the charge that "democrats hate the poor" might not be totally justified by the information at hand.
"Recommendations for possible reforms include a temporary surcharge on unspecified taxes; a broader sales tax, including the prospect of taxing clothing purchases; a higher gasoline tax; and taxes on 401(k) retirement plans.
The report by Corzine's Budget and Re-engineering Government Transition Policy Group also calls for across-the-board cuts in current state spending, a new office to streamline state government and improved financial oversight." |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4275
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:56 pm: |
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OK sylvester, how about ditching the clothes tax and the gas tax, and restricting the income tax hikes to taxable income over $300,000. Good enough for you now?
Oh, and which "fact" should be cut out of the government? |
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