New Jersey Illegal Alien Sales Tax Increase
New Jersey had a huge budget gap and Governor Corzine shut down non-essential state activities until the state legislature and senate gave him appropriate measures to pay the bills. The major impact to the resident of New Jersey is an increase from 6% to 7% of the state sales tax.Some estimates of the gap have been up to four and one half billion dollars. The sales tax increase is expected to produce a little more than one billion dollars of increased revenue for the state. New Jersey has been balancing the budget for the last eight years by borrowing the funds for the most part. Governor Corzine should be applauded for putting his foot down and forcing New Jersey lawmakers to come up with the proper funding of the state budget.
Now, New Jersey will be known for having the highest state sales tax in the country.
Everyone knows New Jersey had a surplus when Christie Whitman was elected to office, but she led the New Jersey lawmakers to cut taxes for the wealthy and now most lawmakers are hesitant to restore them.
The major factor recently to add to the New Jersey budget deficit are the expences of educating the children of illegal immigrants at a cost of approximately $10,000 each per year, the cost of imprisonment of illegal alien prisoners at more than $28,000 each per year, the cost of medical and hospital expenses of the illegal aliens, the costs to translate and reprint state, county, and local documents into foreign languages, and other costs and expenses. In addition, there is the loss of revenue to the state of New Jersey when illegal aliens are paid in cash. There is also the oppotunity loss of revenue to the state of New Jersey when a qualified American New Jersey citizen or legal alien is replaced by an illegal alien or not even offered the job.
The State of New Jersey, the counties of New Jersey, and the Towns of New Jersey are all stressed with excessively high taxes and cannot afford expenses of the illegal alien population at all. There is no justification for the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars each year for them while we are trying to take care of our legal citizens and immigrants.
New Jersey lost population of legitimate citizens and aliens during the past decades due to the very high cost of living in New Jersey (including tax rates) and would have lost at least one federal house seat if the population inflow of illegal aliens were not counted in the states total population. New Jersey also lost jobs as more employers left the state rather than staying or moving here. Most of us know many friends, relatives, and coworkers who have left the state and very few if any new ones to start living in the state.
New Jersey has cancer and requires drastic reform to survive.
New Jersey and other states will become bankrupt with the expenses of the illegal aliens. At the federal level there does not seem to be any assistance in the support of illegal aliens. It seems to be that they want it to become a local issue at the state level. Governor Corzine should mobilize New Jersey state government as he has for balancing the budget to solve the illegal alien problem in New Jersey.
New Jersey supports legal immigration but cannot support the tidal wave of illegal aliens. Resources are few and New Jersey must prioritize support of legitimate citizens and aliens first. State, county, and local support of illegal aliens is unfair.
posted by God Bless America - Bob @ 2:29 PM
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