Ribeye_King

Ribeye_King t1_j20311u wrote

Reply to Legal weed customers continued spending millions on cannabis taxes in the third quarter as more dispensaries began recreational marijuana sales: New Jersey collected more than $7.7 million in taxes on cannabis purchases from July through September by rollotomasi07071

I'm sure that the tax revenues will be spent wisely on funding drug treatment and prevention programs as well as schools, and that the money won't immediately be diverted into the general fund. NJ is well-known for its careful stewardship of tax dollars after all.

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Ribeye_King t1_iwo4val wrote

Reply to The officials dealing with efforts to control New Jersey’s record-high property taxes are meeting in Atlantic City this week to discuss pressing issues like inflation and rising public worker benefit costs: The annual conference comes as the average property-tax bill has risen to nearly $9,300 by rollotomasi07071

When it comes to the quality of public schools, there is literally no data that exists showing that higher property taxes/more spending correlates with better educational outcomes and plenty of data showing that there is basically no correlation. Massachusetts has similar if not better public schools and average property taxes there were more than 30% lower than NJ's in 2022.

This BS of treating ever-increasing NJ property taxes as a requirement for having good public schools needs to end because it's demonstrably false. We are a highly skilled and educated state so how have people here unquestioningly imbibed this garbage line of thinking?

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