Lesniak Drops Millionaire’s Tax Proposal into TTF Debate
In an effort to offset the revenue lost to the phase out of the estate tax that is part of the plan to renew the Transportation Trust Fund (TTF), Senator Raymond Lesniak (D-20) today introduced legislation to impose a millionaires tax that was in place until 2001. Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ Read more
Yet another broken solution for a failed status quo. Raising taxes solves nothing but feeding the out of control spending black hole. Tell Trenton to stop the charade.
3:31, That sounds more like a religious belief than a political philosophy. “Taxes bad”. I guess “The roads will fix themselves” will work.
No Cal we pay $2 million per mile to fix our roads AUDIT the TTF first then we can talk about funding
NJ pisses away over a million per mile per side building sound walls (in addition to the 2m per mile quoted to repave) that rewards those foolish enough purchase next to a highway.
In ny state contractors use “flaggers” to direct traffic.
In NJ the police unions get $105 per hour to sit on their ass in a municipal owned squad car. How much money is pissed away here?
Apparently $1.3 million per mile is wasted on in ion largesse, general incompetence, graft, theft and corruption in NJ given we spend +$2mn per mile of state road which is $1.3mn MORE per mile than the next highest state in MA. Until we get a full audit of the TTF and find out where the money is going, not a penny more in gas taxes. The money for our roads is there. NJ has the second largest public infrastructure budget after NY funded by gas taxes, commuter taxes, bridge & tunnel and toll road charges, etc. We’ve had enough of Sarlo, Sweeney and Prieto using the TTF as a slush fund to buy union votes and help their pals like Sanzari and the iron workers.