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please elaborate

so Albany is saying that they pay too many taxes to support NYC schools ?

yeah because south jersey has such a high population or taxable base...........

Doherty Tells Fulop to Step up His Game Rather than Sling Mud

By Max Pizarro | 07/28/15 2:33pm
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Movement conservative state Senator Mike Doherty (R-23) this afternoon stepped into an argument between Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R-16) and Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, siding with fellow Republican Ciattarelli against the Democratic mayor on the issue of tax abatements and school funding, and extending the argument to a critique of Fulop?s methods.

Doherty has long championed reassessing the schools funding formula to relieve rural and suburban taxpayers of having to foot the bulk of a bill for an Abbott School District in Jersey City, a municipality anchored by a Gold Coast a river removed from New York City.

?If you throw in pre-school, 70% of the school budget in Jersey City is funded by taxpayers across the state,? said Doherty. ?When you point that out to Mayor Fulop all he answers with are ad hominem attacks. In the past he has called me a Christie troll and said it was creepy that I would look at a house he was buying that was on NJ.com.?

The house in question was one the mayor was purchasing for $739,000, or one seventh of its value on the books in a city that has not had a revaluation since the 1980s.

?This pattern of ad hominem attacks is a little infantile,? Doherty said. ?He?s saying if it?s good for Jersey City, then screw everyone else. That would be fine if taxpayers weren?t funding the schools.?

http://politickernj.com/2015/07/doher ... me-rather-than-sling-mud/