Another day, another demand from Trenton that spending at the local level be frozen or cut? When are we going to hear about salary cuts in Trenton? When are we going to hear about the elimination of patronage jobs? When are we going to hear about the Governor's plans to eliminate the silent tax burden corruption and duplication of administration services causes us?
Right now I am paying the same taxes, but will have reduced, and more expensive, NJ Transit service soon and will see my children's education suffer. And don't even get me started on roads on a morning I hear a bridge over the Garden State Parkway is closed because part of it fell on the road. I don't deny that there is wasteful spending, but right now it seems the burden is on the taxpayer with none being felt by those who actually caused the mess -- our political leaders and their connected friends.
When will the pain be shared with the bureaucrats who don't actually affect day to day living for most of us in the state? At the moment all the changes are leading to a shifting of costs to the average NJ citizen in the form of higher fares and higher property taxes. Soon I'm sure other services will be cut, perhaps to motor vehicles, the state highways or the court system. All cuts affecting the average person but not those who have jobs that could be cut will little affect on services to the common man. When will the real cuts to the state government come Governor?
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