Mulshine's column today,Sen. Richard Codey and property taxes: Crossing the West Orange line, dealt with property taxes in West Orange and why Senate President/former Governor Richard Cody, decided recently to flee West Orange for Roseland.
What does the West Orange line mean? Mulshine uses the term to define when one's monthly property tax bill is close to or exceeds one's monthly mortgage payment, For most in West Organge that time may be coming soon.
When Mulshine asked Cody why as Senate President and a former Governor he couldn't deliver on property tax relief he didn't have an answer. All Cody could come up with was "Hopefully, you bring back as much money as you can."
Mulshine went on to note that when he asked Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Chris Christie, that same question he pretty much had the same answer. "A governor can't do it by himself," Christie said. "You have to work with municipalities and you have to get citizens to actively say, 'We're going to demand more out of our school districts and towns in terms of reduction of property taxes.' So, we're just telling the truth." And the truth, he said, is that "there's no silver bullet."
Mulshine used that cliche to then talk about Bob Brown and his plan for property tax relief which would cap local costs and:
"I would take the state income tax that is dedicated to only school property tax relief and take that money and distribute it equally per child all over the state of New Jersey, which would reduce your school property taxes by 50 percent," says Brown..
"Brown is a Democrat, by the way. So if a Democrat can come up with a property tax plan, why can't a Republican?" Mulshine concluded.
In his column posted on NJ.com, Mulshine included Bob Brown's recent campaign video for readers to watch. I posted this same video last week, but here it is again:
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