November 2,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Vote NO on Question #2 on Election Day. By doing so, WE THE PEOPLE can push back the gas tax increase.
“New Jersey voters have a chance to force Trenton lawmakers to go back to the drawing board on Election Day by opposing a ballot referendum question that would allow New Jersey to amend its constitution to dedicate the revenue from the gas tax to fund the Transportation Trust Fund.”
The Ballot referendum question would allow New Jersey to amend its constitution to dedicate the revenue , that’s a euphemism a constitutional amendment to automatically raise your taxes every year!
Voting no on the measure would force lawmakers back to the bargaining table, according to Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, who spoke recently on NJ101.5’s Bill Spedia radio show.
“A vote for number two is a vote for the gas tax,” Guadagno said. ‘If you like the gas tax, then you’re going to like number two.'”
#VoteNoOnTwo
This is weird. A no vote would only allow the new gas tax revenue be used for things other than transportation-related projects…
ballot referendum question that would allow New Jersey to amend its constitution to dedicate the revenue , that’s a euphemism a constitiutional amendment to automatically raise your taxes every year
“Question 2 was intended to complement a gas tax increase. The amendment itself does not increase the gas tax”
https://ballotpedia.org/New_Jersey_Dedication_of_All_Gas_Tax_Revenue_to_Transportation,_Public_Question_2_(2016)
James, not buying your statement.Agree with 8:57am.
Agree. They could increase the tax with or without this.
Would any increase or decrease in the amount of the tax cause a corresponding change in the amount that would be required yo be committed to transportation projects going forward? The fact that the ballot measure is designed to enact a constitutional amendment rather than an ordinary law certainly ties the hands of the legislature is a way that an ordinary law would not. The most important question for us now is how exactly how it ties the legislature’s hands, and to what extent. As usual, the devil is in the details.