Anthony Coley
Anthony Coley
anxious budget folks start talking understand
We understand folks are anxious to start talking our budget plan, but they should know what it is before commenting.
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This will be a budget that will hurt. The cuts will be deep.
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We have crossed an important threshold. Folks understand that our budget problem is very serious or somewhat serious, and that is a threshold that should not be taken lightly.
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The governor realizes the tremendous burden property taxes have placed on families across the state. We are preparing the budget with that in mind.
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The governor has said he will not balance the state budget on the backs of government workers, but he has also said that all across the state, families are doing more with less and they expect their government to do the same. Faced with a $6 billion deficit, we don't have a choice.
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A proposal to address this issue will be included in the governor's budget proposal.
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His budget is tough medicine, no question about it. But it is also responsible and honest, and ultimately that's what the people of New Jersey expect.
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We feel these districts should contribute more of their fair share.
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We expect the board to review and give us a full accounting.
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These children have built their lives in this country, and we must not hold them in a Catch-22 that is not of their own making.
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The review will be a long and methodical process involving outside experts that will generate long-term structural changes to the IT infrastructure of state government.
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Our cuts are deep and painful; they hurt. But at the end of the day, the over $2.5 billion in cuts are not enough to close a $4.5 billion deficit.
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We have every intention of reinvigorating this board before the permanent president is selected.
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We have to make sure it works. A victory for us is to make sure that savings are passed on to the consumer.