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Christie takes aim at gas taxes, pensions, property taxes and teachers union

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With the state’s Transportation Trust Fund less than three weeks away from running out of money for new road, bridge and rail projects, Gov. Chris Christie said the fix being pushed by the Democratic-controlled legislature lacked sufficient tax breaks to be signed into law. Claude Brodesser-Akner, NJ.comJ Read more

5 thoughts on “Christie takes aim at gas taxes, pensions, property taxes and teachers union

  1. Exactly. Anyone who says NJ’s property tax problem is not a pension and health benefit issue is not telling the truth.

  2. Well there are lots of people in NJ that don’t tell the truth!
    The biggest liars are the ones that blame everything on Christie.

  3. Hey NJEA, your days of terrorizing parents, elected BOE members and taxpayers are done. You’ve pigged out long enough.

  4. Our absentee governor has been in office for some time so he owns the bad with anything good. No different than those that place all wrongs on the president.

  5. I am not a Christie fan but I will give him credit for trying to reel in the unsustainable pension and medical benefits public employees receive. it has to change. I don’t think it is right that money was diverted from the teacher’s pension fund starting with Christie Whitman and that has to be repaid. For heaven’s sake, it is time to freeze pensions and move onto 401K style plans and keep medical costs in line with what public sector receives. Long gone are the days when public employee salaries were lower than the private sector so delayed remuneration in the form of pensions, etc. made up the difference. As for Ridgewood’s current travesty with the NJEA and our BOE – I’m just sick. I wish all these complaining teachers could be replaced. And, yes, I’m one of those who wears the cloak of anonymity because I have kids in school and I know the teachers retaliate. Many are not as dedicated to their students and the field of education as they profess.

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