lawhawk.blogspot.com - 5/16/2009
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New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine wants New Jersey taxpayers to think that he's doing them a favor by cutting $150 million from the current year budget because it is coming up $1.2 billion short. Corzine intends to use $450 million from the rainy day fund, shift another $450 million into next ...
wyblog.us - 5/16/2009
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wyblog.us —
1. Eliminate property tax rebates. OK, this seems
like blasphemy coming from a conservative. But bear with...
me. The rebates are a gimmick, taking tax money from one source and using it to defray another tax. It would be far more efficient to simply cut ...
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- 5 items NJ Governor Jon Corzine can cut from the state ...
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faustasblog.com - 5/16/2009
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faustasblog.com —
Via Instapundit , Corzine Proposes Cuts By Shifting
Costs To Next Year . Ah, the smell of...
Democrats in Trenton. But I digress. Lawhawk points out, The two biggest parts of Corzine’s solution are the raid on the rainy day fund and pushing costs into next year. The rainy day fund ...
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The Corzine shell game
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JON CORZINE’S financial wizardry….
Instapundit —
JON CORZINE’S financial wizardry.
Attention New Jersey voters
TigerHawk —
... the importance of beating, and the beatability of, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine this November (New Jersey having its elections on odd-numbered years). Today, Lawhawk takes apart Corzine's latest "solution" to New Jersey's budgetary mess, which basically amounts to one deception on top of another. Here's a ...
The Corzine shell game
Fausta's Blog —
Via Instapundit,
Corzine Proposes Cuts By Shifting Costs To Next Year.
Ah, the smell of Democrats in Trenton. But I digress.
Lawhawk points out,
The two biggest parts of Corzine’s solution are the raid on the rainy day fund and pushing costs into next year. The rainy day fund usage is warranted, since that’s the purpose of the fund. However, pushing off the costs to next year does not address the fundamental problem with the structural deficits caused by decades of overspending. It creates incentives to ...
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