Tell Rush Limbaugh He's Wrong About Governor Christie's Budget

Call Rush’s Show at 1-800-282-2882 – Tell Him The Truth About the Governor’s Budget


I have a lot of respect for Rush Limbaugh and what he has done for the conservative movement.

But when Rush is wrong it is up you and me to let him know the facts and set him straight.

Rush thinks Governor Christie is cutting spending and cutting spending but you and I know better.

The governor’s budget is a bad budget for New Jersey and it needs to be stopped.

Governor Christie was elected to rein in Trenton and cut taxes to ignite New Jersey’s ailing economy. Instead, he has proposed a budget with a massive $2.56B property tax increase on New Jersey homeowners.

The governor is taking this $2.56B directly out of the Property Tax Relief Fund to pay for growing Trenton’s bloated bureaucracy and expanding welfare and other entitlement programs. These are not spending cuts! This is money that by law belongs in the pockets of you, the taxpayer.

Here are the indisputable facts about the outrageous spending in the Christie budget:

$613M for nursery schools mostly in inner city the Abbott Districts

An increase of $107M for the state’s public option health insurance program called NJ FamilyCare

An increase in food stamp eligibility from 135% of the federal poverty level to 185%

An increase in funding for the “Healthcare Subsidy Fund” charity care by $79 million, for those ineligible for government and non-government sponsored healthcare (read: illegal aliens)

The budget promulgates Cap & Trade by using approximately $70M in funds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program to help balance the budget

The governor punts on a $3B pension obligation while the state’s pension system is near collapse (Mercatus reports this week that New Jersey’s pension liability is a staggering $173B!)

The governor’s budget does not lay off one government bureaucrat -- not one – after the state’s workforce has exploded over the past decade under McGreevey and Corzine. There are no union givebacks or attempts to renegotiate contracts.

More Taxes and Fees in The Christie Budget

Further, the governor’s compromise with Democrats puts back almost $100M in funds for scores of liberal pet programs back into the budget is to be paid for with several new tax and fee hikes rather than cutting elsewhere.

There’s a new tax on insurance premiums (Bill S2096);

A new tax on health care – the hospital bed tax (Bill S2143);

A new tax on new business filing fees (Bill S2088);

And a tax on consumers that will confiscate more than 28 million dollars of gift cards purchased in New Jersey. (Bill S2112)

That’s right. If you do not use a gift card to your favorite restaurant after one year, the State will confiscate the money!

It is time for Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the national media to know the facts about the Christie budget.

CALL RUSH’S SHOW TODAY AT 1-800-282-2882 AND LET HIM KNOW THE TRUTH!

On to Victory,

Steve Lonegan

State Director