Why this N.J. congressman keeps voting against big bills he’d sponsored
Updated Apr 11, 2021;
Posted Apr 11, 2021
Rep. Jeff Van Drew acknowledges President Donald Trump during a rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center on Jan. 28, 2020.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
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When the U.S. House in March 2019 passed far-reaching ethics legislation to expand voter registration, mandate that presidential candidates release their tax returns, end partisan gerrymandering, and match small-dollar donations to candidates, New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew co-sponsored the bill and voted yes.
“This reform bill will clean up corruption in Washington, restore our democracy, and promote bipartisanship,” Van Drew said at the time. “We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
The main beneficiaries of the repeal – worth about $97 billion a year – are wealthy Americans who are among the top 1% of annual tax filers, according to a recent study by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, D.C.
Those 1.6 million filers, who earn more than $644,000 a year, would receive 62% of the benefits – an average of $38,000 for each of them. With such high incomes, they pay substantially more in state income taxes, and many New Yorkers in the top 1% own homes with property tax bills that exceed $40,000.
The next highest 4% of filers – those making between $263,000 and $644,000 – would receive the 24% of SALT savings. That’s an average of $3,660 for 6.3 million filers.
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Updated Apr 07, 2021;
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In the recent article listing “The 25 N.J. towns with the highest tax bills for schools,” NJ Advance Media, probably inadvertently, also made a list of 25 of the top school districts in New Jersey.
This, along with recent teacher-salary articles, appears to be an ongoing campaign to malign public schools and teachers. It’s as if you’re trying to create animosity toward state-certified professional educators, but this has finally backfired.
Some of the “highest tax” districts provide not just the top schools in New Jersey, but in the nation, since New Jersey public schools are tops in the country, as per Education Week an item that was reported in your paper on Sept. 2, 2020.
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The detention of undocumented immigrants at county jails has been a really uncomfortable controversy for New Jersey Democrats over the last couple years one that wasn’t heavily discussed until the Trump era.
All three county jails that house ICE inmates are in places entirely represented by Democrats. It’s a lot of revenue.