New Jersey public employees have taken cuts for years in order to maintain their benefits. The State promised them a pension so they would take lower pay. And they are not paid more than comparable private sector employees – when compared on education and experience they get less, in fact. They provide needed services, they pay taxes and they contribute to their pension (unlike the State).
Regardless of what anyone may say to the contrary, those are the facts.
The governor gave an almost $500 million tax cut to the richest fraction of 1% of state residents, cut $500 million dollars from education, deliberately cost the state $430 million in school funding and cancelled the job-creating commuter tunnel to New York City which also will cost the state around $270 million it has to pay back. Now he proposes more corporate tax cuts. The only cuts the people of New Jersey get are to services and health care.
There doesn’t seem to be any explanation for this, other than that it is somehow because the state needs money and jobs so we should take in less revenue and cut jobs – or something. None of this is good for the economy or the people of New Jersey.
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