State Senator Robert Littell

VOTERS REJECT HIGHER TAXES
SCHOOL BUDGET FAILURES RISE STATEWIDE

Senator Robert Littell, (R-24), the senior member of the Senate and the Republican Budget Officer issued the following statement regarding the school budget failure rate across the state.
Senator Robert Littell, (R-24), the senior member of the Senate and the Republican Budget Officer issued the following statement regarding the school budget failure rate across the state.
“Yesterday the voters of New Jersey spoke out loudly for lower property taxes. It was predictable that faced with another year of flat school and municipal aid that voters statewide rejected school budgets at an extremely high rate. It seems that the Democrats in charge of the Legislature and the Governor’s office have their priorities misplaced and that they are out of touch with the needs of New Jersey families.
“This is the fifth straight year of Democratic control of state government, and not coincidentally, the fifth straight year of frozen school and municipal aid for middle class suburban districts. This policy of flat school and municipal aid has a direct correlation to the unprecedented rise in property taxes.
“The history of the last four years of Democratic control of government has been higher and higher property taxes for suburban middle class districts and this year looks like it will be just more of the same.. In fact, the entire school funding formula needs to be reformed to improve our schools and to keep New Jersey an affordable place to live and raise a family. Just this year a former Democratic treasurer, John McCormac stated that ‘New Jersey doesn’t have a revenue problem it has a spending problem,’ I couldn’t agree more.�