Tax proposal
not a solution
To the editor:
The state Legislature has been given a deadline by Gov. Jon Corzine to come up with a solution to the high tax problem in New Jersey. Now, after some months of committee hearings on the subject, the leadership has announced a partial solution. They propose a 20 percent reduction in local property taxes. And how, they say, will this be achieved? By eliminating the annual property tax rebate.
How does the idiotic legislative leadership expect us to believe that is an honest solution? Anybody can take your money with one hand and give it back with the other.
Once again, the flim-flam machinery in Trenton is back in high gear. With all the talk at the tax reform hearings about solutions, let us not be lulled into believing that the politicians will change. They are unwilling to tackle the real problems; big government, high overhead, too many benefits, blatant double-dipping by public officials, escalating public pensions, pyramiding sick days and much more. The public sector has grown to monumental size with almost 1,200 municipalities and school districts crowded into one of the smallest and densely populated states in the nation. New Jersey must modernize its 18th-century structure and bring it into the 21st century to survive.
Frank J. Chrinko
Kendall Park
A failure to fix
failed intersection
To the editor:
At the Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting last week, the board paved the way for approval of a diner at Route 1 and New Road’s already failed intersection. A mistake in my view, but the most outrageous thing about this is what was not done.
The cure for that failed intersection is not to add a diner at the intersection but to add two reverse jughandles north and south bound on Route 1. The fact that there is nothing that I am aware of being done on either of these properties either to acquire them or to lobby for state support is a failure of vision and leadership.
This is particularly important in this moment when the State is confronted with a 2005 estimate of $300 million for the widening of Route 1.
Despite the bravado the of the mayor’s election debate claim that the road would be widened in two or three years the facts are that the widening has not even achieved project status at DOT. The current state study underway is to look at our corridor, including Route 130, with the idea of what can be done short of widening Route 1 that would help traffic flows.
Putting these two reverse jug handles in place on Route 1 would do just that. It would make it easier to get across Route 1 and to move along Route 1.
Right now this local government of is doing nothing, no lobbying of the state or anything, and that does not serve us at all. To put this on the Master Plan and lobby the state are needed first steps.
If the readers have had enough of this misadventure in doing nothing about this intersection or at Beekman Road and Route 27, or indeed many other sites, then let’s hear from you either here or at our Republican Web site, South BrunswickGOP.com
Roger Craig
Kendall Park
Mr. Craig is the chairman of the South Brunswick Republican Organization

