http://www.njpp.org/com_salestax.html
Statement on Release of Sales Tax Report
June 21, 2006
By Jon Shure
>That (sales) tax has done a lot of good, especially for the higher education system in the early years
Just saying it doesn’t make it so. You don’t know if we have a entirely private system of education what would have happened.
>Governor Hughes wanted the tax after he failed to get the Legislature to support an income tax.
Now we have both!
>We don’t take in enough money to meet our needs
You mean that the State doesn’t STEAL enough to satisfy the wants of all the ROBBERS!
>left to those whose response would be to indiscriminately slash spending, regardless of need.
Whose determines needs! The marketplace is how to peaceful adjudicate the many needs of diverse people. The gubamint uses guns to pick winners and losers.
>This tax could be doing more for us.
Who’s “us”? Stealing more from the people who earn it and reward the people who don’t. Based on what moral principle do you justify this theft?
>cable TV
Telephone and cable are taxed to death.
>And the sales tax is riddled with inconsistency. … They unfairly shift the sales tax burden more to lower income people.
The tax is inefficient and ineffective. It is a theft. A mugging. It forces the marketplace to move underground. It burdens the entire economy with a drag on all production. It raises costs. Basat’s Law: Look for the hidden effects. If someone has to pay tax on detergent, then they can NOT satisfy other needs.
>The sales tax is often, and properly, derided for taking a larger share of a poor person’s income than a rich person’s.
Why is a rich person’s money less important than a poor person’s?
>we should consider a system of credits so low income people can get back the few hundred dollars a year
Oh, create more welfare entitlements. Great idea. Imprison more people in the virtual chains of welfare.
>This report lays out a range of options that could bring in as much as $6 billion a year in new revenue.
It’s not “revenue”; it’s booty. Ill-gotten gains. The proceeds of a crime.
>We can’t afford for the full revenue potential of the sales tax to go unrealized.
Sure we can. Reduce the sales tax to zero. Reduce the income tax to zero.
If the State provides “essential services”, then the marketplace will supply them. People will have choices.
>But all the easy stuff has already been tried. That’s why we’re in this mess.
No, we haven’t tried freedom. This is the same Socialism that brought down the Soviet Union. It will bring us down just as surely.
> If New Jersey is to be a first-class state, it needs a modern, productive, fair tax system.
No, it needs freedom and liberty. End the sales tax. End the income tax. Free people to be all they can be!
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It’s sad to see Socialism being advocated as “freedom” and “first class status”.
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