The part of the puzzle I wonder if he is going to figure out is the marijuana legalization > tax dollars with the arrow pointing the way it actually works in reality.
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Boris,
Corrupt NJ was mentioned a few times. The thing about the legal marijuana tax revenue is this; NJ is corrupt, the money will most likely not go towards tax relief for the middle class.
Absolutely. NJ is already un-affordable, and is becoming more un-affordable every year! Do you live in NJ? Thinking about what NJ will be like in 10-20 years is painful!
No I don’t live in NJ. But I also don’t know what property your $8,800 per annum of taxes is on. I live in a low property tax state and that’s a reasonable number, depending on the property.
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Not to speak for them, but from a quick glance at property tax calculators that puts the appraised value somewhere near 400,000 depending on where they are in the state.
But you listed legalizing marijuana (which will bring in HUGE amounts of tax revenue to the state government) as a reason your taxes will go UP. There is no logic to that in anything you have said.
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What utopia are you planning to move to, since you clearly are too smart to stay in such a place, or doom your children to such a future. Who would do that to their kids?
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That’s not a palace in NJ. Wonder what it would be worth with no fire and police coverage, dirt roads, and widespread homeschooling?
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As have been your complaints over your being forced at gunpoint to live there.
Is everything in NJ corrupt?
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Everyone in Jersey complains about high property taxes… I don’t hear them bitching about public schools too much, though.
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The reason for killing the tunnel project was to use the money to tamp down gasoline taxes. Thus contributing to traffic in the tunnels, making commutes more difficult. In his last year he reneged on that as well. So in the end we have the higher gas prices, no tunnel construction jobs and still a crappy commute.
Lets not also forget the millions of taxpayer dollars to go to a ghost mall in the Meadowlands and a casino which went belly up.
Calling Christie a turd would be insulting to coprolites and fertilizer.
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Except in Hudson County which has high property taxes and lousy public schools. There are areas of that county which are practically a Marxist parable with sharp divisions of wealthy and destitute.
Mostly due to the fact that new construction (which happens to be the most expensive property in the region) there is heavily abated, leaving longstanding (and generally poorer) residents to pick up the slack for revenue shortfalls. This caused massive spikes in tax rates for mostly poor and immigrant communities. All that gentrification in Hoboken and Jersey City was done practically tax free. When the tax abatements subside, a rash of sell-offs, foreclosures and short sales occur in these communities.
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Somehow, I don’t think any of this is what our new friend up there is posting about, though…
Thanks!
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I lived in Asbury Park, NJ for 2.5 years and owned a condo there for a couple of years after that. Property taxes on a 1000 sq ft loft, third floor walk up, that I (massively over) paid $350,000 for were $6000 a year. In a town where nobody in their right mind would send their kids to the public schools, the roads were in such bad shape that I got 5 or 6 flat tires in the first year I lived there, there was no city trash pickup, and the police were more interested in giving parking tickets than addressing noise complaints or drug dealing and car break-ins.
So normally (as a former resident of VT and MN, and current resident of CT) I would agree 100% that higher property taxes are the price we pay for living in nice places, but NJ is the exception to that rule (at least in my direct experience in Asbury Park and Monmouth County). NJ property taxes are just an extension of the corruption and crime that the state has a well-deserved reputation for.
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As a former resident of Asbury Park, I can confirm that public schools there were garbage and I doubt they’ve magically improved in the last 6 years.
I truly have no idea where the extortionate property taxes I paid to that “city” went - because the roads were shit, the police force was inept, there was no garbage pickup, you have to pay to use the beach (even as a resident). None of the normal services that a city provides were there. But taxes were more than twice (per mil) than I pay now in a nice, fairly wealthy town in CT.
You need to move to the Hudson Valley or to CT if you work in NYC or to PA if you work in Philly. Either way you’ll be much happier, healthier, and richer. At least you’ll be able to get to work when they close the rail tunnels to NJ transit
If you work in NJ, you should probably start looking for a new job.
Moving out of NJ was the best decision I made in a long time - and I moved to Manhattan to an apartment less than half the size I’d been living in, and got rid of my car. Still an improvement.
Your tax dollars most likely went to servicing old debts. That’s where most of my tax dollars go. We have the highest taxes in the county for the least amount of services due to some mind bendingly dumb decisions made years before I bought a house there.
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When the tunnel collapses (not if), aside from the dozens of gruesome deaths that day the economy of the whole state of New Jersey will tank for a long, long time. Chris Christie will be able to take full credit.
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Makes sense (well, that explains it, I mean, because obviously it doesn’t make sense).
NY and NJ state politicians seem to be unbelievably incompetent, corrupt, and partisan al at the same time. More so than any other state I’ve lived in (9 and counting) and rivaling Italy in terms of countries.
