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It’s how jersey always works. But in christi’s case all you have to do is send a box of donuts and BAM, you got a friend for life along with unlimited taxpayer funds to keep those donuts a commin.
“…seeing a new tomorrow…”
More commonly known as soak the middle class – the practice of giving taxpayer dollars (i.e. grants) to corporations, which can then up the price the middle class pays for their products and services, the “profit” of which is handed back to the politicians as campaign donations.
Welfare for the elite. Works like a charm, Christie says.
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Exactly how much of the federal Sandy Relief funds are being used to fill in for the debit in tax revenue these breaks are to bring? Sounds to me like they’re just shuffling chairs (jobs) around on the listing Titanic (NJ economy). So long as they’re self-funding this shuffling and not relying on federal Sandy Relief dollars to do it, I’m okay with them wasting New Jersey taxpayer dollars. I’d like an audit.
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The New Jersey Kingfish stinks from the head.
When will the head of this crime family go to prison?
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in simple terms Christie = a mentality of Gambino / Gotti / Soprano / Corleone - with a formula of hijacking the powers of the governmental system & harnessing them to enrich his allies & further his political power quest.
Hmmm… let’s see… how about giving each of Camden’s 77,000 residents $4 million and see what that would do for the city’s future? And it would cost only about half the amount of the $630 million awarded as “future tax breaks.”
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Is Christie even making a pretense of seeking the GOP nomination?
There is not a prayer in hell that he will ever get it. Question is whether he gets out of office unindicted.
Knowing NJ politics he probably will and will wind up on Faux…
Its not the corruption that’s surprising, its the audacity of it. He just doesn’t seem to care. If only there were some entity designed to dig into these things and inform the populace of what’s going on.
For the constituancy that matters most (money==speech), this plays out less as a scandal than as a proof of concept.
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So let me get this straight: Christie rewards property (mis)managers who neglect their properties for over twenty years, which contributes to the blight that creates a need for community revitalization tax credits?
No Christie will never become president. But i have a feeling (if he can stay out of jail) he will be able to call in enough favors that he can live quite comfortably once he leaves “public service.”
Much as I dislike Christie, political favoritism, and businesses demanding (and getting) public subsidies to move or not move once they reach a certain size, something tells me to wait before jumping on Christie on this one. Not that I’m doubting political contributions to Republicans has a lot to do with getting public money, but something has to be done. Camden has long been hollowed out, meaning the central city is broke and the jobs are in suburbs which low in come residents often lack the transportation to reach. Business does have an economic gravitational effect, so having all the business in the suburbs has the effect of keeping all the business in the suburbs. I’m actually going to give some credit to trying to get business to move into Camden even if this isn’t the ideal way to do it. I might prefer the same money be invested in local small business and start-ups, but this might get enough businesses in Camden to become a new center of gravity. Something healthy cities have is enough going on at the center that that’s where others want to go.