SEPTEMBER 28, 2015, 10:58 AM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2015, 11:05 AM
BY SALVADOR RIZZO
STATE HOUSE BUREAU |
Governor Christie will not consider legislation to increase the state’s gas tax, unless it is paired with reductions to other taxes in New Jersey, he said Monday.
Christie did not say definitively which taxes should be cut, but he mentioned New Jersey’s estate tax and inheritance tax — noting that New Jersey and Maryland are the only states in the country that have both.
The dual “death taxes” are preventing New Jersey from being “competitive,” Christie said. A common complaint from state residents, he said, boils down to, “It’s not that I can’t afford to live here; I can’t afford to die here.
“Republicans should not be giving away any votes for an increase in the gas tax — none, zero — unless whatever is presented represents tax fairness for the people of New Jersey,” Christie said at a breakfast hosted by the New Jersey Commerce and Industry Association in Morris County.
Christie also made reference to the state income tax and “a number of other taxes that could stand some reducing,” giving few specifics.
One of the few times i agree with our absentee governor, get rid of the estate tax once and for all.
you have to get your blue state buddies to push the democrats
The money collected from the gas tax doesn’t get much pavement replaced since we are stuck with grossly overpaid union workers who must get the bid.
I’d you allowed companies to bid that are not saddled with union expenses we would get a lot more bang for the buck.
Our gas tax funds are being used to pay state debts.
Yes 7:28, that’s technically true. The NJ Transportation Trust Fund, which pays for state roads with funds raised from gasoline taxes and NJ state road tolls, is over $17 billion in debt, so funds raised from the gasoline tax & state toll roads are going to pay interest on that debt even though the debt number keeps getting bigger due to gross incompetence, mismanagement, graft and outright theft of taxpayers funds by the unions who overcharge for state road work. Read this if you remain uninformed https://watchdog.org/201704/new-jersey-gas-tax-highways-cost/
Can that dent be renegotiated at lower rates ?
12 times per mile more than Texas? Ever been there? The Texas roads are monstrous — much wider than NJ. The difference is not in the materials — it’s in the labor. And don’t say anything about the cost of land — I haven’t seen a whole lot of new roads built in this state in quite a while. Commissioner Fox is blowing smoke