PrincipleOfMoments t1_it3re96 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 6:43 PM

Reply to comment by OkAbbreviations4982 in Allies on Jersey City council take shots at Fulop’s $724 million budget, then begrudgingly approve it by OkAbbreviations4982

I blamed the BoE and the city council, just as the portion of my original quote you clipped says.

The BoE most certainly deserves blame because their budgets go up seemingly without concern for the economic realities the residents that fund them face.

The city also deserves blame, and if you accurately described the situation with the payroll tax, then that is a terrible job by the city since the tax was upheld by the NJ Supreme Court so there is no reason for it not to be fully enforced.

OkAbbreviations4982 OP t1_it4bju8 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 8:53 PM

You're attributing it "in major part to the BOE". The increases are practically identical and my point it that there was much wailing and nashing of teeth over the BOE budget from the city and Fulop but now they have done exactly the same thing and blamed the same cause.

Here's the unenforceable article - https://www.insidernj.com/fulop-calls-state-legislators-fix-payroll-tax-loophole/