Should NJ Dem Gov Jon Corzine resign after getting elected with tax relief promise but raised taxes in office?

Question

Yes, for New Jersey residents who are among the highest taxed anywhere Jon "The Taxman" Corzine promised during his election campaign to bring tax relief, but having been elected has helped effect the largest tax increase in New Jersey history. Should he apologize and resign? Has he misled the NJ electorate in order to obtain his office as governor?

Answer 1

Did Corzine sign a contract stating that he would not raise taxes under penalty of losing his office? No? Then I guess he can say anything he likes to get elected and do whatever he likes while in office. There is no legal obligation to fulfill campaign promises; too bad, huh? Politicians know they can do this because people will only get mad enough to almost vote.

Answer 2

No one should be surprised by what Corzine did. He holds the distinction of being the man who voted the most for tax increases while he was in Congress. NJ residents were fools to elect him and are now (literally, not figuratively) paying the price for that. It's not the tax increases you should be worried about but his incredible budget that will bankrupt NJ without future dramatic tax increases. Most of that money is nothing more than a redistribution of wealth away from the hardworking people who earned it to crack addicts and violent criminal illegal aliens.

Time to move out of NJ is what this basically amounts to. A few short years from now, ALL of NJ will be a shithole, instead of just most of the strip along route 80 into NYC.

Answer 3

As a conservative, I am disgusted by Governor Corzine's blatant disrespect for his constituency, but I am not surprised by it. However, it is the sole responsibility of those very people to hold him accountable by engaging in grassroots campaigns to have him recalled, or by notifying their state representatives/senators and voicing their outrage at his actions.

It is common for a liberal (but not all Democrats) such as Corzine to say one thing to get elected while doing another once safely in office (see Bill Clinton's first term tax policy).

Of course he SHOULD resign, but the real question is WOULD he. And obviously no self-worshipping liberal politician would ever do such a thing. In his mind, Corzine is simply carrying on the liberal mantra of "tax and spend, and when a problem arises, tax it into submission." Unfortunately, the Governor may have taxed his people into submission ...

Answer 4

I think people who want to pretend to understand politics should stop arguing in straw men. Corzine promised PROPERTY TAX relief and at no time did he rule out that PROPERTY TAX relief could not be achieved through INCOME or SALES TAX increases. Thus, no inconsistency. This is called "thinking" and escapes almost everyone who tries to discuss politics. You may disagree that a sales tax increase was the proper way to achieve property tax relief, as I do. But stop pretending that he said something he didn't by oversimplifying things or misrepresenting his statements. I suggest cleaning the debris out of your ears and engaging you brain before listening to a politician again. If you can't grasp the arguments of your opponents you can't refute them. If you can't state your questions in terms that are not straw man arguments, you should go discuss Britney Spears albums or something.

Answer 5

ALL POLITICIANS LIE

I'm speaking about both parties too. Their whole purpose is to get in office and say what they have to the constituents to get re-elected. It will continue until we get off our butts and make it happen.

Answer 6

Yes the man is killing our local economy. He apparently dosent care about the little man. His own party is voting against him! He should go now!

Answer 7

That depends, what is your deficit like? If you have a tremendous deficit, would it make sense to cut more taxes?