1. Make noise. Let your elected officials know you are out there, that you're angry and that you want them to lower your tax bills.
Look of course no one is happy about taxes, but lets see them encourage people to try and understand the problem we actually have rather than just inciting more anger. They continue with their steps in the plan:
3. On Tuesday's editorial page, we will publish a survey we will provide each of the candidates for state office in November. It will ask them to state their three most important ideas for reducing taxes and government spending, and which of the 20 points in the Asbury Park Press/Gannett New Jersey tax relief plan they would push for if elected. The candidates' responses to the surveys will be posted at APP.com. If you don't see their response, badger them until they have completed the survey.
Yes, badger your representatives and candidates until they complete the Asbury Park Press survey of their very own tax plan. Why do a newspaper even have a tax plan, they're supposed to report on the plans of others. They continue:
5. If you, your friends or neighbors have been involved in any anti-tax initiatives at the federal level, draw on those experiences to help organize networks or build on existing ones to keep the pressure on Trenton.
Go find national anti-tax people so they can add to the complaints, because that will help solve the problem. How about keeping the pressure on the newspapers to report the news, not make it themselves? And let's not forget the step in the action plan where you find other people who read the Gannett newspapers:
6. Network with people who have expressed views similar to your own in the "Tax Crush" series Story Chats and the Sound Off portion of our online "Tax Crush" section. Join forces, work together.
Search the online comments section for other outraged people to make yourself more angry. That's responsible. It's quite clear they're pushing a partisan agenda, which while not surprising is still disappointing, because now more than ever we need real reporting to inform the readers of the complex issues facing our state.
