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Daily Muse: READ HIS LIPS
Posted on Monday, February 01 @ 13:50:06 PST by dailymuse |
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 Feb. 1, 2010
This is why we have such high hopes for Gov. Chris Christie.
We admit, we were concerned after seeing headlines about the possibility of placing tolls on free roads, like Interstates 78, 80, 195, 287 and 295. Having been around Trenton a day or two, we know that such "reports" by transition committees are often trial balloons. And trial balloons can often lead to recommendations that somehow officials say they are forced to do, given the dire circumstances of the budget.
In fact, we were in the middle of a "Read My Lips' restrospective about the importance of keeping promises, of not abandoning pledges at the first sign of trouble.
Then we saw this from The Associated Press:
Gov. Chris Christie has ruled out increasing highway tolls or the gas tax to help solve New Jersey's budget woes.
Christie also said Monday that he won't approve placing tolls on roads that don't have them now, because New Jerseyans are already overtaxed.
And started rewriting.
Now, we know that it's early. We know that we haven't seen the budget yet. We know that Christie's only been in office for a couple of weeks.
But governing is as much about philosophy as it is style. And so far, Christie's philosophy -- and style -- shows that he is on the side of the taxpayer.
And what a change from our previous governor, the union-organizer-in-chief.
Christie ran on a platform that said New Jersey was overtaxed. That we had a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
For him to come out now and say that the only solution to our budget woes was to hike tolls, or add them to currently free highways, or to raise the gasoline tax, would have made lie to all that he had campaigned on.
We may well come to the day in New Jersey that such options have to be considered. But not yet. Not now.
Christie hasn't even begun to cut the budget. He hasn't even begun to enact the pension and benefit reforms. We haven't even begun to see what New Jersey would be like if we spent less, did less, and most important of all, taxed less.
So yes, today was nothing but rhetoric. And sure, Christie could change his mind.
But for today, at least, he swatted away one more tax and toll trial balloon.
So far, so good.
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