Politicians seeking more ways to spend taxpayers' money
The small number of registered voters in New Jersey have run true to form this past election. The voting public had an opportunity to throw the incumbents out of office but chose not to vote (less than one-third of registered voters actually voted) or voted for the incumbents.

The incumbents who are bent on taxing us out of our homes were returned to discover more ways to extract money from our pockets. These public officials, who are responsible for the sorry financial condition in New Jersey, are secretly devising ways and means to collect more of our money. Our financial genius governor makes up new phrases to disguise new taxes.

The politicians continue to hold multiple state pensions. Many have been sent to prison, and more are waiting their turn to enter prison. Why do you think they collect and spend any amount of money to hold onto the gravy-train positions?

Now to add insult to injury, the Legislature is ready to give $30 million to Rutgers University to expand the football stadium. The deal probably depends on how many lifetime tickets each politician will receive. Senior citizens who are paying school taxes until they enter the boneyard can't get a free pass into a high school game. In fact, after paying for the stadium, the tax-burdened citizen of New Jersey will not be able to buy a ticket to the game. Our generous governor has donated $1 million toward this stadium enlargement. Now all he has to do is to urge 29 more liberal millionaires to donate a portion of their small-change money and that will settle the $30 million problem.

Not satisfied with driving the state into financial disaster, these big spenders are now ready to grant raises of from $10,000- $20,000 to our overburdened judges. Yes, the taxpaying public will pay. Do you wonder why these spend-and-tax incumbents were returned to office?

Have a very merry Christmas and a wonderful taxpaying year.

Joseph Fortino

East Brunswick