Senators Oppose GOP Plan For 30% Sales Tax Capitol Comments

Senator Robert Menendez

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), joined a group of Democratic colleagues in introducing a Senate resolution opposing the plan led by Congressional Republicans to impose a nationwide sales tax on all goods and services, which would increase prices for hardworking families by 30 percent. Instead of this misguided tax increase, the resolution calls for supporting a tax cut that will help working families and grow the middle class while opposing cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, or cuts to pay or benefits for servicemembers, veterans, or law enforcement.

“As New Jerseyans - and Americans all over the nation - are struggling to make ends meet while the economic recovery continues to take hold, the last thing we need is to create an additional tax burden that will further raise costs and squeeze the pocketbooks of hard-working

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Alex Sauickie is a life-long Jackson resident who represents his home town and 13 other towns in the State Assembly.

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Councilwoman Jennifer Kuhn and Councilman Scott Sargent, a former member of the Jackson Board of Education, voted against the resolution.

In a joint statement to The Jackson Times, they said they fully support increased funding for the Jackson School District and would welcome increased state aid with open arms but they don’t believe this resolution is appropriate at this time for several reasons.

“This bill has no senate sponsors. Amidst the current political climate in Trenton, a Republican sponsored bill with a high price tag has no path forward for eventual passage. The root cause of the school district’s financial woes is the S-2 funding cuts passed by Trenton,” their statement added..

They noted that, “the S-2 bill has trimmed approximately $15 million dollars from next year’s budget alone. We need to spend any political capital we have fighting the root cause of the issue instead of shifting the blame for the budgetary woes onto the tax paying private school parents.”

“Private school transportation is about 2% of the district’s total budget. The S-2 cuts have trimmed close to 10% off the total budget. The Democratic leadership in Trenton calls the Jackson School District ‘overfunded.’ For the sake of the next generation of leaders being educated in the Jackson school system it is time to focus on the real culprit which is the S-2 cuts,” they added. The statement adds, “we would be wiser finding other townships with similar cuts (Democrat towns such has Jersey City) and make a stronger coalition to reverse the S-2 cuts.”

“I want to echo Councilman Borrelli’s support of Assembly Bill A-4461 which is on our resolution 119-23,” Council Vice President Steve Chisholm said.

The resolution was approved in a three to two vote as Council President Martin Flemming also voted in favor of it.

The vote fell upon party lines, so to speak. Although they are all Republican, there has been a division between the council majority, who voted for it, and the council minority, who voted against it. Kuhn and Sargent aligned themselves with Mayor Michael Reina and county GOP leader George Gilmore. Saucikie wasn’t Gilmore’s pick for the Assembly. He wanted Plumsted Committeeman Dominick Cuozzo, who is currently facing strong opposition by the public.

In other news, Councilman Sargent noted his disappointment that his request to trash the “Dumpster ordinance” that was approved last year wasn’t on the night’s agenda.”

“I wanted to once again express my displeasure with that ordinance. It is an undue tax on the residents of Jackson and once again I want to ask the Council President (Martin Flemming) to review that ordinance,” he added.

The ordinance requires the rental of large garbage containers when work is being done.

Rova Farms Committee

Sargent also reported on a meeting of the Rova Farms Committee. “I think there is a lot of work that can be done.” He said he would be voting against an item on the agenda that pertained to Rova Farms “based on the idea that we need to re-review all the people on that committee and make sure we have the right people in place.”

In contrast, Chisholm said, “I will be voting for the Rova Farms Committee reauthorization and their members. They have been a great group to work with. They love our town. They love the community.”

“They work hard and show up at every meeting and they all contribute one way or another. They are a hard-working bunch and I thank them for their service,” Chisholm added. That measure was also approved in the same three to two vote.

George And Abe

Chisholm also reminded residents that February features, in addition to Valentine’s Day, President George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays which he noted in irritation had been merged together as President’s Day as the legal holiday.

Chisholm urged parents to let their children know about the character of Washington and Lincoln and “the greatness we used to know and what America was founded on not the nonsense and tripe we hear today in schools. That isn’t a knock on the teachers but the curriculum forced on us by (Washington) D.C. and Trenton.”