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New Jersey's Budget Crisis
Matt Bai and David Leonhardt agree that the rising cost of state government and the lack of fiscal restraint on the part of local and state government leaders has lead us to the budget crisis that many states are facing in these uncertain economic times. There are three lessons to be learned from these two articles; local and state governments need to become more efficient, contracts negotiated with public employee unions need to be reasonable, realistic, and affordable, and American's need to lower their expectations of what the government is able to do with the resources available. All three of these problems can be attributed to a lack of fiscal responsibility on the part of our elected officials. As Bai quotes Governor Christie of New Jersey, "it's time to for someone to tell these workers the truth, which is that the state is simply never going to have the money to make good on its commitments." Leonhardt hopes, "The states' current fiscal crisis will end up being the spark that forces government to improve."
Matt Bai gives three reasons for New Jersey's current financial woes, first the state sends 40% of its annual budget to municipalities and school districts in order to compensate for the shortfall in revenue from local property taxes. Second, the state doesn't have the recourses to cover its pension obligations to teachers and other state workers. Finally, the cost of
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Bai calls the people of New Jersey a, "glass-half-full kind of people, have assumed an improbably healthy return of 8.25% annually on the state pension fund. The actual return over the last 10 years averaged only 2.6%." This unrealistic assumption has lead Christie to complain that "teachers, cops and firefighters… are driving up local taxes beyond what the citizenry can afford, while also demanding the kind of lifetime security that most private-sector workers have already…
Works Cited
Bai, Matt. "How Chris Christie Did His Homework." New York Times. 24 Februaary 2011. Magazine. 30 April 2011. < http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27christie-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1>
Leonhardt, David. "Union Contracts, Not Pay, Are States' Problem." New York Times. 1 March 2011. Business Day. 30 April 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/business/02leonhardt.html>
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