OkAbbreviations4982 OP t1_it3g1yy wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:30 PM

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

No you didn't, you blamed the BOE for this.

"Well, clearly the BoE and City don't, since taxes are going up again, allegedly due in major part to the BoE budget."

The payroll tax isn't working because people are refusing to pay it and Fulop has describes it as unworkable. Mack Cali and LeFrak took the city to court over it and lost and then the city asked the BOE to forgive any interest these huge companies accrued, a courtesy not afforded to home owners.

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

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/