Tom Kean, Jr.: Property Taxes Don't Matter So Much

by: the_promised_land

Thu Mar 01, 2012 at 02:00:00 PM EST

Guess so. Guess he kind of has to, since they've gone up 20 percent under Governor Christie. So it makes sense that's a subject that they don't want front and center.

The context: defending Christie's decision to focus on the income tax cut instead of property tax issues. The claim: "the income tax matters for job creators."

Yep - give those millionaires more money, and they'll create jobs.

I don't need to say "we've heard this one before." I mean, this worked super well at the national level, right? The Bush tax cuts brought us all into a new era of job creation and prosperity that we're enjoying?

Let's change the subject to property taxes. They are too high, and our system of government is overly dependent on them.

And if we want to talk about jobs (where NJ is doing a lot worse than the nation as a whole in reducing unemployment so we should talk about that), let's talk about jobs - and not some specious claim, backed in Kean's article by anonymous quotes from supposed business owners, that we'll get there indirectly through cutting taxes on millionaires.