An article I saw on NJ.com Monday is interesting for three reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The article, “N.J. residents actually say yes to a tax hike if it\u2019s spent on this, new poll says<\/a>” (subscriber exclusive) states that 54% of State residents (according to one poll) support the further extension of a “temporary” corporate tax surcharge to provide funding for NJ Transit.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n First, the article’s title (headline) is phrased to entice the reader to click on it to find out what spending is entitled to support for a tax hike. I have previously<\/a> complained about titles that do “not adequately convey what the article is about but instead serves as a piece of \u201cclick-bait\u201d to excite the reader\u2019s curiosity to go to the article (thus generating ad revenue).” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Second, I have also previously posted <\/a>about this particular “temporary” tax increase and the Star-Ledger’s desire to make it permanent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third, many of the Star Ledger’s unlabeled opinion pieces have reflected support for a dedicated funding source for NJ Transit. As a matter of policy, I oppose dedicated funding; every government agency should have to make the case for taxpayer money on a regular basis.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jay Bohn<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 26, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n An article I saw on NJ.com Monday is interesting for three reasons. The article, “N.J. residents actually say yes to a tax hike if it\u2019s spent on this, new poll says” (subscriber exclusive) states that 54% of State residents (according to one poll) support the further extension of a “temporary” corporate tax surcharge to provide … Continue reading “Recent NJ.com Article a “Three-For””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"No doubt that support derives from the fact that someone else<\/a> (large corporations) is seen as paying the tax but the people responding to the poll will benefit. As I've said before<\/a>, the government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.\",\"id\":\"14e6fc70-e2bf-44a8-a815-03f2752d61a4\"},{\"content\":\"(Indeed, I suspect that the whole purpose of the poll (and perhaps the article as well) was to claim that there is public support for NJ Transit funding; must have been disappointed that the support was only at 54%.\",\"id\":\"67f21b46-3f84-4692-a870-8f4de19a39e7\"}]"},"categories":[5,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}