State's latest tax solution fails to address the real problems

The state Legislature has been given a deadline by Gov. Jon Corzine to come up with a solution to the high tax problem in New Jersey. Now after some months of committee hearings on the subject, the leadership has announced a partial solution. They propose a 20 percent reduction in local property taxes. And how, they say, will this be achieved? By eliminating the annual property tax rebate!

How does the idiotic legislative leadership expect us to believe that is an honest solution? Anybody can take your money with one hand and give it back with the other.

Once again, the flim-flam machinery in Trenton is back in high gear. With all the talk at the tax reform hearings about solutions, let us not be lulled into believing the politicians will change. They are unwilling to tackle the real problems; big government, high overhead, too many benefits, blatant double-dipping by public officials, escalating public pensions, pyramiding sick days and much more.

The public sector has grown to monumental size with almost 1,200 municipalities and school districts crowded into one of the smallest and densely populated states in the nation. New Jersey must modernize its 18th-century structure and bring it into the 21st century to survive.

Frank Chrinko

Kendall Park section

of South Brunswick