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发信人: mozhe (墨者), 信区: NewJersey
标 题: ZZ:Who’s Christie fooling?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Apr 1 19:50:01 2013, 美东)
If you were to listen to Governor Christie’s town hall speeches, you might
think that his tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy had led to boom
times in New Jersey. But the truth is that for the over $2 billion the
governor’s given to corporations like Panasonic, Prudential, and Revel
Casinos the state’s unemployment rate is still sky-high.
Tell the legislature that it's time to cut back on the corporate welfare and
give New Jersey a real jobs plan:
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/p/dia/action/public/?act
A new report from our friends at New Jersey Policy Perspective shows how the
floodgates have opened for corporate welfare since Christie took office.
Since the governor’s term began in 2010 the rate of public dollars going to
corporate welfare has increased by five times.
Here's an example of just what's wrong with these grants. In 2011 the
Christie Administration gave Prudential Insurance $210 million to move its
offices in downtown Newark just a few blocks down the street. The terms of
the deal required them to create 400 jobs, but a review of internal
documents showed that they were going to hire most of those employees
without the grant. We paid them to do exactly what they were going to do
anyway.
No wonder our unemployment rate is 9.3%, well above the national average of
7.7%. Neighboring states like Pennsylvania and New York have recovered most
or all of their lost jobs since the recession while we’ve recouped only
half.
Governor Christie can no longer use the much-maligned slogan ‘New Jersey
Comeback’ with a straight face anymore, but he’s still selling a recovery
that seems to be nowhere in sight to justify subsidy programs that seem more
like snake-oil than stimulus.
New Jersey needs to cut back on the corporate welfare and use those savings
to invest in education, public safety, and infrastructure if we want to see
a real recovery. But Christie is a good salesman, and coming out against ‘
job creating programs’ in this environment is tough for any politician –
even if we know they aren’t creating jobs.
If we are going to convince our legislators to fight for a real jobs program
, we have to start spreading the word through the grass roots. Can you sign
this petition to Governor Christie and the legislature?
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/p/dia/action/public/?act
Thanks for your support,
Bill Holland,
Executive Director, NJWFA
[1] Friedman, Matt. "Spike in tax breaks awarded to N.J. businesses yields
few results, group says." The Star-Ledger, April 1, 2013. http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/04/group_says_nj_has_increased_pe.html | m*******y
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