Comments on: Some of the new “Jon Corzine Taxes”

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By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:45:28 +0000

“Any idiot who thinks we should tax more stuff shold move to France. Gym memberships – in this fat county we should be giving people rebates for joining gyms.”

Couldn’t have said it any better…this guy is bad news for this state. And yet the polls that are starting to come out show that people FEEL FOR HIM!!! What the hell is going on?!?!

By: i hateeverybody

i hateeverybody — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:05:48 +0000

1) Corzine is a sociaist dickhead and I hope he and everyone in his family contract the most painful lethal disease possible

2) Paul Nelson is a moron. There can be no substantation of taxing producers to support non-producers. Liberalism truly is a mental disorder – Paul – check yourself in.

3) F – Corzine, F- Islam, F- Mexicans, F-Old People, F-Teachers. F-Everybody !

By: i hateeverybody

i hateeverybody — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:02:06 +0000

What’s next – a tax everytime i shoot my load. Bottom line is the producers are being taxed to an unsustainable amount to support the non-producers. Any idiot who thinks we should tax more stuff shold move to France. Gym memberships – in this fat county we should be giving people rebates for joining gyms. As a local talk show host say – Liberalism is a mental disorder and Corzine, well, he’s just a socialist prick.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:29:55 +0000

Thanks – I studied this in school and I’m still not convinced, philosophically, that services should be taxed as sales are taxed. Despite my professor’s best arguments I never believed that the procurement of one person or company’s services should be taxed at the same rate as a good being purchased with cash.

That is one of my major problems with the current tax system nationwide along with the fact that I’ll just never agree that a parking spot or gym membership should be taxed. A parking spot, built with taxpayer money, on taxpayer-supported land, which houses cars that get heavily taxed when purchased, that run on gas that is taxed, now is taxed to park? I think that’s a bit much, no?

And I equate gym memberships to satellite radio. If a person opts to join a private organization, then where does the government get the gall to waltz in and say, “We’re going to tax this.” I think it’s pushing the envelope WAY too far in the government’s corner.

At this rate – we’ll have a per-mile-driven tax in a few years!

By: Paul Nelson

Paul Nelson — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:11:52 +0000

I am NOT a Corzine fan, but there is a rationale for expanding the goods and services covered by sales tax. Services now account for 58% of Americans’ consumer spending.

Here’s a couple of links on the topic if you’re interested.

http://njfiscalfolly.blogspot.com/2006/06/nj-sales-tax-reform.html

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/pub/services/services04.html#summary

NJ Fiscal Folly