Thanks to the Asbury Park Press’ “What taxes are going to be raised?” article from today. The following items were not taxed before, but will now be taxed at 7%:
I don’t know what shipping and handling charged separately means, but it sounds ridiculous. And what a deplorable, despicable human being this Governor Money Bags is that he’s taxing fucking gym memberships and parking spaces. Is he for real? That’s disgusting. And this slimy swine says that he “understands” that these taxes will hurt us in the beginning, but are needed in the long-run? He has no idea what it’s like to be a working class guy trying to live in this state. He’s fucking delusional.
This deplorable asshole also raised business taxes and is raiding the state’s disability trust fund of $50 million. Like that’s not a bait and switch maneuver…
He increased the daily surcharge on rented cars from $2 to $5. Who does that? Who sits in their luxurious Hoboken condo and says, “Hmmm…maybe I’ll raise the car rental surcharge. Yeah! That’s it! Let me raise revenues by imposing an extra surcharge on a service that the state should be disgusted that they’re even taxing anyway…”
And for those of us with SUVs that don’t quite make 19 miles per gallon? Fuck us! That’s right! We get to pay a random one-time fee for having an automobile that isn’t up to Corzine’s gas standards. I wonder how this one-time bait-and-switch fee is going to fix our state’s fiscal problems? It’s not. It’s obvious that it’s not. And it’s obvious that for guys like me – who would love to drive a new hybrid or a more fuel efficient car if we could afford to buy a one – that our goal of even getting a new car will be set back by this ridiculous, deplorable one-time fee.
I said it before and it still holds true – New Jersey has a “deplorable” Governor.
I am NOT a Corzine fan, but there is a rationale for expanding the goods and services covered by sales tax. Services now account for 58% of Americans’ consumer spending.
Here’s a couple of links on the topic if you’re interested.
http://njfiscalfolly.blogspot.com/2006/06/nj-sales-tax-reform.html
http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/pub/services/services04.html#summary
NJ Fiscal Folly
Thanks – I studied this in school and I’m still not convinced, philosophically, that services should be taxed as sales are taxed. Despite my professor’s best arguments I never believed that the procurement of one person or company’s services should be taxed at the same rate as a good being purchased with cash.
That is one of my major problems with the current tax system nationwide along with the fact that I’ll just never agree that a parking spot or gym membership should be taxed. A parking spot, built with taxpayer money, on taxpayer-supported land, which houses cars that get heavily taxed when purchased, that run on gas that is taxed, now is taxed to park? I think that’s a bit much, no?
And I equate gym memberships to satellite radio. If a person opts to join a private organization, then where does the government get the gall to waltz in and say, “We’re going to tax this.” I think it’s pushing the envelope WAY too far in the government’s corner.
At this rate – we’ll have a per-mile-driven tax in a few years!
What’s next – a tax everytime i shoot my load. Bottom line is the producers are being taxed to an unsustainable amount to support the non-producers. Any idiot who thinks we should tax more stuff shold move to France. Gym memberships – in this fat county we should be giving people rebates for joining gyms. As a local talk show host say – Liberalism is a mental disorder and Corzine, well, he’s just a socialist prick.
1) Corzine is a sociaist dickhead and I hope he and everyone in his family contract the most painful lethal disease possible
2) Paul Nelson is a moron. There can be no substantation of taxing producers to support non-producers. Liberalism truly is a mental disorder – Paul – check yourself in.
3) F – Corzine, F- Islam, F- Mexicans, F-Old People, F-Teachers. F-Everybody !
“Any idiot who thinks we should tax more stuff shold move to France. Gym memberships – in this fat county we should be giving people rebates for joining gyms.”
Couldn’t have said it any better…this guy is bad news for this state. And yet the polls that are starting to come out show that people FEEL FOR HIM!!! What the hell is going on?!?!