DaTruthSquad's 10-Step Plan For Toll-Troll Corzine

Here's an interesting point of view on da Corzine Toll Scheme - is it biased to where certain counties pay more and many others pay practically nothing to fund it?

A special DaTruthSquad investigation shows just that -- and Monmouth County winds up shouldering da 2nd-biggest burden in da state!

According to EZ Pass data obtained by da Star Ledger newspaper - 2 counties in particular will pay about 29.2% of da toll burden into this scheme -- Monmouth & Middlesex County, while Salem, Sussex, and Warren County residents will only shoulder 0.8% of da burden COMBINED!

Da "Corzine Back-Hand Slap in Da Face Award" goes to Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), the Transportation Committee chairman. He was all for da plan, and then all of a sudden he got wind that Route 440 would become a toll road - right through da heart of his home Assembly district!

Let's see who else will get their pockets siphoned by da Corzine vacuum?

Anyone who goes to da supermarket, or a department store will see prices soar because trucks are going to have to be reimbursed for their high gas prices and toll costs, and guess who will be paying those higher prices --- YOU DA TAXPAYER!

And, it will be costlier in other ways - LAWSUITS.

One, Steven Lonegan, longtime Bogota mayor and president of Americans for Prosperity, a pro-free enterprise group, announced plans to file a federal lawsuit charging the state with violating the U.S. Constitution by raising tolls on out-of-state drivers.

"This is no longer a toll now," said Lonegan. "This is now a tariff. This is now a tax." Lonegan has sued New Jersey twice before over its borrowing practices.

Now maybe daTruthSquad should get da hearing checked, because daTruthSquad remembers when da Toll-Troll Corzine ran for Governator he said he'd run da state like a business.

On Monday, Citigroup, a business said they're having problems and would have to cut 6% of their workforce, on top of layoffs that already happened. Countrywide Mortgage axed 20% of their worforce, IndyMac sliced 10%. GM & Ford, also business da last time daTruthSquad looked used job cuts to bolster their bottom lines.

Toll-Troll Corzine said da state faces a "financial crisis" and we're "broke." So how many jobs will be cut statewide by Toll-Troll Corzine?

ZERO!

Who is da single biggest employer in da state of New Jersey?

NEW JERSEY - with over 70,000 folks on da payroll and many more grabbing bloated pensions.

Before you force NJ residents into bankruptcy to pay for your Toll-Troll Corzine scheme, how's about you cut da fat first.

Since Toll-Troll Corzine obviously isn't adept enough to handle a simple budget, let daTruthSquad give this a try.

STEP 1: Declare a crisis. Immediately order a HIRING FREEZE, cut 6% of da state workforce (4560 jobs) and order a second round of 6% cuts in 2009 (4560 jobs which can come through buyouts or attrition).

STEP 2: Demand that all State Assemblypeople & State Senators forefit 10% of their pay and overall legislative budgets, with that money going directly to paying down da debt. They created it, so they should pay for it - not us.

STEP 3: Put up solar panels and wind devices along da NJTP, AC Expressway, and GSP. Let da toll roads generate electricity and sell that energy back to energy companies to generate income on a large scale, as well as provide power for da toll road buildings to make them energy self-sufficient.

STEP 4: Raise tolls 10% in 2008, again in 2011 & 2014, with that money ONLY going to da Transportation Trust Fund.

STEP 5: Cut state spending by 10% each year for da next 2 years, and invoke a spending freeze until da debt is paid off.

STEP 6: Cut pensions down to be based on just 1 state job, not 4 or 5, and anyone making less than $35,000 with a state job gets no pension.

STEP 7: If you're convicted of a crime - NO PENSION.

STEP 8: You must work in state government 7 years to qualify to have a pension.

STEP 9: Sell yearly naming rights to all toll road service areas, the AC Expressway, and Route 440 with all money going to pay off the state debt.

STEP 10: Order a combining of all local Board of Educations, 600 of them, and demand towns have joint BOE. If 5 towns did this on a statewide level, the 600 individual BOE's can be reduced to 120. This alone could save da state BILLIONS!

This is just a beginning.

Governor Corzine, if you have any questions on how to cut spending, please feel free to comment on daTruthSquad's blog page. My TruthTellers would be glad to help you with business decisions.

DaTruth is, something does need to be done, but putting da burden on da taxpayers who already suffer with da highest property taxes in da nation, second highest auto insurance, largest tax burden, one of da highest foreclosure rates -- it's too much.

And, making Monmouth residents pay more than 20 other counties is not fair and should be fought by da people.

Also, to all da TruthTellers - if ANY POLITICIAN goes along with Toll Troll Corzine's plan, they should be voted out of office. Follow their actions.

DaTruthSquad will - and that's daTruth.