Tuesday, October 11, 2016

NEW GAS TAX, WHY SO MUCH, WILL SOUTH JERSEY GET ITS SHARE?



October 10, 2016
Dear Editor
How did the NJ gas tax increase become law, and what good will it do? A bill passes when approved by the Governor after the majority of the legislature members (21 votes in the Senate, 41 in the Assembly). This tax increase plus the previous amount places NJ ninth highest nationally. Major portions of the new monies will go to improvements for North Jersey – New York area, including their rail facilities. What rail facilities pass through Cumberland, Salem, and Gloucester counties? Increase the train ticket costs.

Forty-five Assembly members voted for the increase. Southern New Jersey is represented by nine Districts with eighteen votes. Ten South Jersey members voted for the tax increase.  The SJ vote count included five Republican members and three brave Democrats who voted against this tax increase. The increase could have and should have been less or stopped by five or six NO votes from SJ. This could have kept ‘grab a dollar legislature’ members from your pockets.

Next year remember the three RINO yes votes; Brian Rumpf (District 09) Joe Howarth and Marie Rodriguez-Gregg (District 08)). Also remember the Democrats; Burzichelli (District 03), Mosquera (District 04), Barclay (District 05), and Egan-Jones (District 05), Cruz-Perez (District 06), Troy Singleton and Herb Conaway (District 07).

Remember the SJ ‘tax and spend’ Senators; Whelan (District 02), Sweeney (District 03), Madden (District 04), Cruz-Perez (District 05), Beach (District 06), and the RINO, Addiego (District 08).


Gerald Keer

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