Feed Me Semour

From the Randolph Reporter

Answers scarce to high taxes

Others had equally strong, though less creative, criticisms of state government at a tax reform group’s fall summit meeting held last Thursday night in Randolph High School.

The meeting was sponsored by The Silver Brigade, a group pressing for tax reform on the state, county and municipal levels. Resident Jerry Cantrell is president and founder of the group.

Panelist Todd Caliguire, a Republican gubernatorial candidate last year, is running for Bergen County executive. He said taxes are being fueled by the cost of the state’s pension systems and employee benefits.

Caliguire also said many county services may be unnecessary and duplicate services provided by municipalities.

Panelist Eugene Feyl, mayor of Denville and a Republican candidate for Morris County Freeholder, said education costs are the main problem.

“In Morris County, county government takes about 12 percent of people’s property taxes. The average local portion is 22 percent, and education takes 62 percent,” said Feyl. “That is the heart of the issue.”

Feyl compared government in New Jersey to the Broadway play, “Little Shop of Horrors.”

“The play was about a plant that kept being fed by Seymour’s blood,” said Feyl. “Then it began eating whole people. It kept saying “feed me, Seymour, feed me.” Seymour kept feeding it until finally it ate Norman.”

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