COLLETTI TELLS VOTERS TO OPPOSE THE SALES TAX REFERENDUM

  COLLETTI FOR SENATE

 38th District – Bergen County
 

COLLETTI TELLS VOTERS TO OPPOSE THE NOVEMBER SALES TAX REFERENDUM QUESTION

It’s Not Property Tax Relief, It’s a Permanent Tax Hike

8 Percent Sales Tax Will Soon Follow  

ELMWOOD PARK  -- State Senate candidate Robert Colletti says he is telling voters to oppose a November 6 ballot referendum that purports to provide property tax relief through the sales tax 

“This ballot question is a continuation of the deception that the Democrats are perpetrating on the taxpayers and should be voted down,” said Colletti,

“If this referendum is approved, people won’t get tax relief; they  will get a permanently higher sales tax hike that drives up the cost of goods and services for the poor and the middle class and makes our economy less competitive with our neighbors, “  said Colletti, owner of a construction management firm.   

The Democrats raises the sales tax to 7 percent last year -- an 18 percent increase --  and used half the increase to fund this year’s tax rebate checks Since the state didn’t have the money from the increased sales tax  needed to pay for the rebates,  borrowed $2.2 billion to fund this year’s checks.

“The taxpayers didn’t get tax relief this year; they got their own money back from the higher sales in the form of a $2.2 billion state loan that homeowners will pay off, ” says Colletti, who is running against Assemblyman Robert Gordon in the central Bergen County district.

“My opponent voted to increase the sales tax and to drive the state deeper in debt to pay for phony tax rebates. Now he wants voters to believe that they can get tax relief by increasing the sales tax,” said Colletti.

“You can’t get tax relief by raising taxes,” added the Republican candidate. “You can only get tax relief by cutting spending, and Bob Gordon won’t do that. He is a big government liberal who will spend taxpayer money as fast as he gets it.”    

Colletti said without spending cuts the state will be forced to fund its future tax rebate checks by raising the sales tax to 8 percent and then to 9 percent.

“I have no doubt that if the state continues down the spending and borrowing road that Democrat leaders like Bob Gordon put us on, New Jersey will soon see an 8 percent sales tax which will increase the financial burden on every family in the state,” said Colletti.