In Jersey
Police to be cut by 30% due to property tax cap. Speculation that NJ will relax its onerous gun laws.
ETA: Link seems to work now.
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October 25th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Link dead – seems to be at the far side, though
October 25th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Mos folks don’t realize it but police and fire usually take up about 2/3 of the budget of any city. We pay a LOT for those services. Cities would get off a LOT cheaper paying off fire damaged properties at 100% of the appraised value rather than running a fire department.
October 25th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
30%? Really? Either they’re counting on a hell of a lot of inflation, or they hired a bunch of people they couldn’t pay to start with.
Or, possibly, 30% of their budget is now going to semi-useless bureaucrats, and they’d rather axe the cop on the street than fire cousin Joey?
Or this is another example of pushing fear to justify robbing the public.
Anyway you cut it, the numbers don’t make sense.
October 25th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Is this not a standard political gambit to get the gullible public to support tax hikes? Let us raise your taxes or else the cops and firemen get it!
October 25th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
The state was subsidizing some towns by a LOT; and the towns have had their shot across the bow as far as upping property taxes – the school board elections this year went badly for the forces of bigger government.
OTOH, that article is a whole lot of teasing and no specifics. NJ doesn’t need a Stand Your Ground bill yet. NJ *already has* a middling good Castle Doctrine law (no duty to retreat in the home, deadly force after calling on intruder to disarm/surrender or if too dangerous to do so). We need to make DAs follow the law on defensive shooting inside the home (not bring charges) and Shall Issue in a timely fashion on paperwork.
This could even save the state money – if it went to on-the-spot NICS rather than the time- and money-wasting useless background check at the state level, i would save the state a small bundle for essentially no effort.
October 26th, 2010 at 5:32 am
I must be old, or something. I thought that ETA meant Estimated Time of Arrival. Obviously, you kids these days mean something else by it. Could someone tell me what is meant, here?
Owhell, what should I expect from people who do credit checks on folks they are thinking about hiring? I thought we had things like posting bonds for people doing jobs with great responsibilities.
October 26th, 2010 at 7:18 am
That confused me for a while – from context I’m assuming that it means Edited To Add.