Urges Assembly support for legislator's plan

There's hope, folks, to have our property taxes reduced substantially and to have a sensible method of funding education, thanks to Assemblyman Joseph Egan (D-17), who made a suggestion to fund education by income taxes. He made his comments recently at the New Brunswick Public Library. Let's hope that other Assembly members see his suggestion as the only sane approach to fund education.

For years we've been saying that using property taxes to fund education is regressive and unfair, since it doesn't tax according to one's income. How can anyone justify that a home is any indication of one's expendable income? Tell it to a widow who is left with a home or to a young family whose wage earner is not working due to a layoff or sickness, or tell it to a retiree.

Assemblyman Egan, apparently, recognizes that people on the lower end of the wage scale are paying a higher percentage of their income than are those on the higher end of the wage scale.

Let's hope that other Assembly members see the light and support Assemblyman Egan in getting his idea accepted as a method of funding education. Maybe New Jersey will become a state where people can feel secure in their retirement. It certainly isn't now.

Frank J. Coury

East Brunswick