Ridgewood PD guarding road construction
Editors note : the Record always omits the fact that the only one making out from an increased gas tax are unions . An increase in gas taxes is a direct payoff to unions looking to get reelected .Years of mismanagement of the High Way trust fund is not even acknowledged . The fact is the state does a terrible jobs allocating resources and spending money . residents have already payed for good roads and bridges , yet politicians since Jim Mac greevey have failed to deliver .In our town look at all the waste , a $9 million Village Hall renovation that was nothing less than a total fiasco as well as many $400,000 golden toilet projects ,it is a wonder anything get done …
Analysis: N.J. gas tax still taboo
Friday March 29, 2013, 11:14 PM
BY JOHN REITMEYER AND KAREN RO– USE
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
New Jersey commuters should get used to idling in traffic, making sudden detours when a bridge fails an inspection and standing on overcrowded railcars.
That’s because the $1 billion state fund that pays for transportation upgrades is tapped out, able to pay only the debt it has accrued over the past decade and leaving a transportation system ranked among the worst in the country with little money for repairs and improvement. And there is no political will in Trenton, by Republicans or Democrats, to increase New Jersey’s 10.5-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax, which provides the main cash for the state Transportation Trust Fund.
With Governor Christie seeking a second term this year, and gearing up for a possible presidential run in 2016, he is unlikely to push to raise the gas tax. In fact, he’s repeatedly dismissed talk of increasing the tax, even when asked in the wake of superstorm Sandy if it could be a tool to help fund the state’s recovery.
And Democrats, who control the Legislature and have been critical of how Christie has handled transportation spending, have not put forward a plan to fix the state’s transportation problems. They too lack the political courage to push a tax hike, especially with all 120 seats in the Legislature on the November ballot this year.
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