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No global warming worries here I suppose.
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Re: Come to City Hall this upcoming Wednesday to promote electric vehicle charging in JC #EVinJC |
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Gee, where does the electricity come from to charge the batteries, lol?
Posted on: 9/17 16:37
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Re: Come to City Hall this upcoming Wednesday to promote electric vehicle charging in JC #EVinJC |
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Of course, all the 'greenies' who looooooove their ecars don't know (or care) about what goes into the batteries without which the cars wouldn't exist.
The same Hollywood elite who recoil over the thought of a 'blood diamond' don't seem to care about the children working in the cobalt mines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphic ... -for-lithium-ion-battery/
Posted on: 9/17 15:08
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Re: Flim-Flam Florio is back-and wants your wallet |
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A ten family apartment building should be paying much more in tax than what you say, and likely will after a reval.
And yes, total tax and tax rate are different, of course. My point from your first suggestion was that suburban/wealthy homeowners are already paying a type of 'luxury' tax annually on their homes, because they get so shortchanged in school support from Trenton.
Posted on: 9/16 17:29
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Re: Flim-Flam Florio is back-and wants your wallet |
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2017 Municipal portion of Millburn taxes was a shade over $5,000-the other over $15,000 went to the schools and a bit to Essex County. As I recall only a couple thousand goes to Essex County, so probably $12,000 goes to the schools. If Millburn got back 50% of school funding the annual total taxes would drop 30%.
Quite the deal for the Abbott district homeowners.
Posted on: 9/16 16:37
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Re: Flim-Flam Florio is back-and wants your wallet |
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I'm not sure what the average tax in JC is-is it over 20K? Considering JC pays such a tiny faction of the largest component of any towns budget, let alone fund anyone else's, I'd bet it's not.
And Millburn/Short Hills has a billion dollar ratable in the Mall, not to mention other corporate HQ's (Dun and Bradstreet), the expensive Hilton-and even with those ratables the taxes are the highest in the state. (Wait, one town with 5 houses I think pays more, don't want to get called on that!)
Posted on: 9/16 16:23
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1) I'd love to see the numbers on how this would work.
2) Again, places like Short Hills pay much more because they're carrying the burden of paying for Abbott schools. 900 million/year for Newark, 400 million a year for JC, 230 million a year for East Orange, 24 million a year for Hoboken, 68 million a year for Asbury Park, 290 million a year for Camden. The suburbs pay higher taxes than they should because of this. Not to mention the big urban cities are often a cesspool of corruption.
Posted on: 9/16 14:41
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Re: New York Times: Is New York’s Best Pizza in New Jersey? |
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The pizza and food at Dan's first restaurant, Arturo's in the People's Republic of Maplewood, is almost as good-not far by car or rail, but often a wait there as well.
Posted on: 9/16 8:49
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Re: Flim-Flam Florio is back-and wants your wallet |
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Suburban residents are severely overtaxed in NJ because they support Abbott districts. In Millburn, the average real estate tax is over $20,000. Why? Because it gets only $2,252 per student from Trenton. Jersey City gets (wait for it) $18,466 per student. Each year, every year. Plus free preK.
So saying that wealthy suburban taxpayers should pay more-well, no. They already pay for their own schools and most of yours.
Posted on: 9/16 7:55
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Re: Flim-Flam Florio is back-and wants your wallet |
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For the most part (minus the wealthy who own expensive homes in Abbott districts), which is why someone owning a brownstone on VVP pays a pittance compared to someone with a home of equal value in, say, Short Hills. 17% vs 89% funding of your local schools is just that-wealthy suburban homeowners pay a ton more taxes because the state gives them so little back for education.
Posted on: 9/15 18:59
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Re: Flim-Flam Florio is back-and wants your wallet |
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I didn't coin this one, nor the Torch for Torricelli.
'Flim Flam' was a common descriptive, as he said 'You can write this down, no new taxes' then ran through a 2.8 billion dollar tax increase (a US record) and further raided the pension funds (he was the first to do so) for 3 BILLION DOLLARS over two years. We're still paying for this, compounded over the 25 years since.
Posted on: 9/15 17:16
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Re: "a guide to jersey city coffee shops" |
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Dollars to donuts they either came from, or were going south and were using the bike path to push the strollers!
Posted on: 9/15 14:22
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http://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2 ... ee.html#incart_river_home
He was a one term Governor because he didn't have a tax increase he didn't adore, now he wants to privatize more of our highways, tax drivers by the amount of miles they drive (can you think of a more regressive tax?), put tolls on our interstates (which the Feds would then drop any funding of them), and in general just screw everyone in NJ who drives a car or buys anything delivered by truck?
Posted on: 9/14 14:39
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Re: Cop protest escalates feud between Jersey City police union, mayor |
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Stevie made it look like things were hunky dory with JC cops in his silly campaign video.
Posted on: 9/14 13:51
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Re: "a guide to jersey city coffee shops" |
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She did list Dames, but didn't mention that Grind had Donut Plant donuts on the weekends. And she's complaining about needing cash at Dames because babies rip cash and choke on coins? We had generations of kids who survived without parents using plastic-just sayin.
Posted on: 9/14 13:42
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Re: U.S. Sen. Menendez - new federal investigation |
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Why are we paying Booker to represent us in Washington, when he spends the day supporting Menendez in the courtroom in Newark? Disgusting corrupt Democrats having each others back.
Posted on: 9/7 8:01
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The irony that our Governor may get a chance to appoint a new Senator to replace one on trial for corruption, while he was never charged and was exonerated at every level of phony accusations, is amusing.
Posted on: 9/6 15:50
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I have to amend my last post, apparently LaFrieda now is a supplier to Peter Luger's, they must've kissed and made up.
Posted on: 8/24 10:43
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I'd say 'many' rather than 'most'. JC is home to another major supplier of top quality of beef, DeBragga and Spitler. And NYC top steakhouse, Peter Luger, doesn't buy from LaFrieda-LaFrieda wont sell to them, since they prefer to use several different vendors and that pissed off LaFrieda!
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Ditto on the Pampita prices, crazy high. The stuff is good, mind you, and it's spotless inside. Their salsa verde rocks too.
Posted on: 8/23 19:19
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Other than the awful signage the building and interior is amazing. The menu (and website) is a hilarious hodgepodge of bad spelling and syntax.
We went very early, and most of the staff is very, very raw. The food was quite good, but most of the items are priced beyond what the neighborhood norm is. If they massage the menu, put in some less expensive items, and get the staff whipped into shape it'll be a nice addition. I think it's going to end up as a late night lounge, mostly.
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Posted on: 8/22 7:16
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Re: Confederate Flag added to Liberty State Park |
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The British flag honors the caste system that is the monarchy! Take down the Hawaiian flag! We shouldn't honor a system where you have to bow or curtsy to a monarch!
Posted on: 8/16 14:37
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Mueller should recuse himself because of his close personal relationship with Comey, and do ya think filling his team with Hillary donors is exactly fair?
Posted on: 8/11 15:33
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No political figure is obligated to release his/her tax returns; frankly, given the leaks from Obama/Lynch/IRS and the deep government we can be pretty sure if there was anything incorrect it'd be public knowledge already.
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Re: NYTimes: Uneasy Welcome as Ultra-Orthodox Jews Extend Beyond New York |
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The impact will be when the new buyers get their homes declared houses of worship, and get taken off the tax rolls, increasing the costs for other residents. Or when they get special busing (separate buses for boys and girls, of course) to send their kids to religious schools outside the area, that will come out of JCBOE$.
Posted on: 8/2 15:25
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Best case scenario-quick trial, Menendez out, Governor Christie replaces him with himself!
Worst case scenario, but still fun-case stalls till the election, Murphy gets to do the replacing, and Fulop gets in a steel cage fight with Torricelli over the appointment.
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First, the statement I quoted was comparing our President to every one before him. Bringing Slick Willie into the mix was totally apropos. Second, I could care less how you characterize my 'girl' comment. When the most powerful man on earth preys upon a 22 year old, or an 18 year old like JFK did, it's man vs girl. And every father of 22 year old who was assaulted by someone twice her age would feel that his girl was taken advantage of. You're always daddy's little girl from what my friends with daughters say.
Posted on: 7/28 8:42
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Nah, the husband of the other candidate who was sodomizing a young girl with an aluminum cigar tube in the Oval Office will never be topped.
Posted on: 7/28 6:59
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I thought people who require daily medications aren't allowed to enlist, like diabetics? Wouldn't someone requiring daily hormone therapy be denied for the same reason, not because they're transgender?
Posted on: 7/27 14:37
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