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- From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
- Newsgroups: nj.politics
- Subject: Re: Governer
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 08:50:43 -0500
- Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
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- Distribution: nj
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- References: <ZqcgXB3w164w@whitebase.ukp.com> <1993Jan18.153953.8831@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1993Jan20.122435.522@hsh.com> <1993Jan21.163046.16256@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1993Jan26.145847.563@hsh.com>
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- In <1993Jan26.145847.563@hsh.com> paul@hsh.com writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan21.163046.16256@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, r2d@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (richard.del monaco) writes:
- >> In article <1993Jan20.122435.522@hsh.com> lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann) writes
- >> about Gov Florio:
- >>
- >>
- >> By the way, if you think the tax increase was so terrible, why do you suppose
- >> the Republicans voted against repealing it?
-
- >No doubt because there was little choice -- Florio's one-party gummint spent
- >it faster than it came in. Now we're stuck with the tab.
-
- Wrongo. The people that ran on the "We'll undo the Florio taxes"
- didn't even make an effort to the property taxes (the sales tax was
- NOTHING compared to what everyone is charged in in property taxes).
- The entire "Get rid of your incumbents" campaign was a lark to get rid
- of Democrats (the majority) and put in a new slate of Republicans. It
- worked, and now the new people aren't keeping their promises.
-
- It's interesting that the following year all the states that hadn't
- raised taxes when Florio did were forced into raising taxes because
- they were having ECONOMIC CRISISES. It looks like Florio knew what he
- was doing by raising taxes a little and forestalling problems.
-
- Heaven forbid that government should be pro-active.
-
- I'd MUCH rather pay state taxes which generally get pumped into
- services that I see being used, than federal taxes that go to
- pork-barrel projects in OTHER states, paying debts (NJ has none),
- and paying for million dollar toilets in the military.
-
- Heck, if the federal government we really wanted to save money they'd
- ban heterosexuals AND homosexuals from the military!
-
- Tom
-
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- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@plts.uucp (home) -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work)
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- "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is
- right with America." --Bill Clinton's inaugural address, 1/20/93
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