[GiantRutgersfan]

Is there any chance of them trying to impose a state income tax or property taxes becoming extremely expensive or anything like this?

Or is the state run well without running big deficits and such?

[bale002]

The imposition of a state income tax would require a constitutional amendment, highly unlikely.

County and municipal government can always raise millage rates or such things as user fees.

State, county and municipal governments threaten to and do lay off such service providers as teachers, firmen, and policemen.

The last thing that office holders do is cut their own salaries and eliminate their own jobs.

Another option is inflation and poor quality services, followed by stagnation.

Another option would be to improve productivity from top to bottom, but that would mean the elimination of many pencil-pusher jobs and the end of easy credit.

[GiantRutgersfan]

Originally Posted by bale002

The imposition of a state income tax would require a constitutional amendment, highly unlikely.

County and municipal government can always raise millage rates or such things as user fees.

State, county and municipal governments threaten to and do lay off such service providers as teachers, firmen, and policemen.

The last thing that office holders do is cut their own salaries and eliminate their own jobs.

Well that is good. New Jersey has a 120 billion dollars deficit, and they already have the highest taxes of any state in the USA. Costs about $8000 a year in property taxes for an average 3 bedroom house. Plus they have 7% sales tax and high state income tax

[DanBev]

Sounds a little like Ct,we just returned from there.Gov't never has enough.All Ct brags about are schools.

[bale002]

Originally Posted by DanBev

All Ct brags about are schools.

"Dispense with the education of the schools, and have good masters at home instead."

I remain in a high cost area, in Florida terms, mainly because of the reputation of its schools.

Sometimes I wonder, it's all starting to sound like a bunch of propaganda ... "best health system in the world ..." and so on ... from the mouths of a quite fraudulent group of people.