$87 is No Joke

Predictably, the Trenton liberal establishment is mocking Governor Christie’s $190 million payroll tax cut.

The focus of their ridicule? That Christie’s latest cut will result in “only” $87 of tax savings for each New Jersey worker on an annual basis.

Now I’m willing to bet, Save Jerseyans, that $87 isn’t exactly  life changing money for anyone reading this post. Wouldn’t get me too far, either. At least not in this state.

But guess what? $87 is a cell phone payment. Or a month’s worth of gasoline. Perhaps even a birthday dinner for your deserving significant other. Millions of New Jerseyans spending $87 more per person this rapidly-approaching Christmas season isn’t such a bad thing, either. Humble as it might be, $190 million spent by consumers in a Bergen County Toys R Us or Atlantic County Walmart is a far more effective job creation strategy than anything Bob Gordon, Jim Whelan and the Trenton Dems could ever dream up.

The point is that an extra 100 bucks or so isn’t an insignificant infusion for New Jersey’s long-suffering middle class! And as the Governor said in his announcement, extremely modest cuts like this are just “the beginning of moving things in the other direction.”

“The other direction,” in case it wasn’t clear enough from the context, will eventually deliver us to a New Jersey where elitist reporters and condescending politicians are willing to trust the taxpayers to spend $87:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGkRQjduGFo

Matt Rooney
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6 Comments

  1. Hey, it's 87 greenbacks I didn't get when Corzine was leaving tax dollars on Carla Katz's dresser. We'll take it!

  2. Just wish this tax cut went into affect BEFORE the Christmas shopping season, not AFTER. But with a Democratic legislature, I'll take any tax cut I can get.

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