Tax cuts for the rich while cutting services to the poor, schools, hospitals is wrong

Governor Christie is wrong to make cuts to services for the poor, schools, and hospitals while cutting taxes to residents making over $400,000. As a wealthy resident said when the former governor imposed the surcharge, this surcharge will not impact my ability to buy food, heat my home, cloth my children, or obtain any basic necessities. Ronald Raegan and George W. Bush gave tax cuts to the wealthiest and our Christie Whitman cut our NJ taxes. What happened when these tax cuts were made? Our local and county taxes went up to compensate and the middle class and poor were the most impacted either by increased taxes for the middle class and reduced services for the poor. This is wrong and any politician who votes for this tax cut will lose my vote. I am an independent voter and I vote in every election. Also, most of my friends and neighbors are in agreement that our taxes will go up to compensate for these tax cuts just like ours with up under Gov. Whitman, Ronald Raegan, and George W. Bush. And the problems with the pension funds began with Governor Whitman when she first tried to raid the fund then stopped funding it. It is unfair of this governor and any politician to push the blame onto the government employees who have fulfilled their terms of the contract through their ongoing pension contributions. It's time to stop punishing the residents and/or government employees for a problem that the politicians created and giving back money to the wealthiest is not the way to do it.

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