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What America needs: rise of strong three party system
Kurt Ritzman
Issue date: 10/21/05 Section: Ed-Op
The upcoming New Jersey gubernatorial election pits Republican Doug Forrester against Democrat Jon Corzine, as the two part candidates. In my opinion, however, neither of these candidates are viable choices, so for my vote I have to look elsewhere.
These candidates don't even seem that different to me. Both advocate many government programs that are expensive and are perhaps better left to the private sector. New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation already. Both candidates have plans to reduce the property tax. Forrester's is a 30 percent decrease in the next three years, and Corzine's is a 40 percent drop over the next four years. Corzine's Web site postulates that his tax decrease will cost $1.67 billion, while Forester's will cost $15.2 billion over the four-year period. These large costs lead me to question where all that money will come from. I mean, they are lowering property tax.
Forrester wants to decrease class sizes in New Jersey public schools, but that is another program that costs money. He also advocates an aggressive security policy, and although that sounds like good, where is the money coming from? Forrester claims that he will be forced to cut wasteful spending, but how is that going to work when he is not cutting programs, but in fact adding programs?
Forrester isn't the only candidate that seeks to add new government programs while supposedly lowering taxes; Corzine has his own ideas to increase the size of the government. He wants to create a pool of money to pay out for the costs of any catastrophe that might hit, and he wants to expand the hours that community health centers are open. Both of this programs take money out of my pocket and again should probably be left to the private sector, at least in my opinion. Corzine also has this "brilliant" idea to require insurance companies to allow parents to cover grown-up children from the ages of 19-30. This raises my insurance costs, and if a person is wasting his life so that he can't get his own insurance after the finish school, then I have no sympathy for him and certainly don't want to pay for him to be covered.
These candidates don't even seem that different to me. Both advocate many government programs that are expensive and are perhaps better left to the private sector. New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation already. Both candidates have plans to reduce the property tax. Forrester's is a 30 percent decrease in the next three years, and Corzine's is a 40 percent drop over the next four years. Corzine's Web site postulates that his tax decrease will cost $1.67 billion, while Forester's will cost $15.2 billion over the four-year period. These large costs lead me to question where all that money will come from. I mean, they are lowering property tax.
Forrester wants to decrease class sizes in New Jersey public schools, but that is another program that costs money. He also advocates an aggressive security policy, and although that sounds like good, where is the money coming from? Forrester claims that he will be forced to cut wasteful spending, but how is that going to work when he is not cutting programs, but in fact adding programs?
Forrester isn't the only candidate that seeks to add new government programs while supposedly lowering taxes; Corzine has his own ideas to increase the size of the government. He wants to create a pool of money to pay out for the costs of any catastrophe that might hit, and he wants to expand the hours that community health centers are open. Both of this programs take money out of my pocket and again should probably be left to the private sector, at least in my opinion. Corzine also has this "brilliant" idea to require insurance companies to allow parents to cover grown-up children from the ages of 19-30. This raises my insurance costs, and if a person is wasting his life so that he can't get his own insurance after the finish school, then I have no sympathy for him and certainly don't want to pay for him to be covered.
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Fred Moseley
posted 10/07/09 @ 1:11 AM EST
What America needs is a multi party system.
We have a three party system today, Democrat, Republican and Bureaucrat.
The problem is that the Bureaucrat is elected for life. (Continued…)
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