Here's more that good 'ol "Mike" has forgotten . . .
In the U.S., seniors collecting social security are taxed on that same social security when they make over $32,000.
When this level was instituted in 1983, 32 grand was a lot of money!!! (Maybe compared to $64,000 today.)
But now??
In central New Jersey, 32 grand BARELY qualifies you for middle class----what with rising gas prices, rising property taxes that the Republicans never did anything about.
So maybe you are a senior citizen, or have senior parents.
Guess what?? It's highly likely that their social security is being TAXED by the government!!!
And in Somerset, Middlesex and Hunterdon Counties, this happens more often than practically anywhere else in the country???
WHAT HAS MIKE FERGUSON DONE ABOUT THIS?? HAS HE TAKEN THE LEAD???
No. Right? NOTHING.
Mike should be withholding his vote on ANY Republican issues until the unfair Senior Tax is adjusted.
Few of the seniors down South are paying it!!! But I guess if central New Jersey pays instead, then that's just fine by Mike! Just fine!
He's a thirty-something kid way in over his head. He's a lapdog for the oil companies, he's a lapdog for Big Pharma---the companies that don't quite take care of central New Jersey anymore.
Our seniors struggle. But that doesn't stop Mike Ferguson from voting in big tax cuts for his RICH BUDDIES.
Lowering that capital gains rate to 15%, dividends to 15%, hey, no problem for Mikey.
But when it comes to providing relief to seniors who are being taxed on their social security??? Then, then:
MIKE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING.
I haven't even touched the issue of health insurance. Mike's been asleep about that, too. Maybe tomorrow, eh, Mike? . . .