Education and New Jersey's budget
By Letters to the Editor/The Star-Ledger
June 05, 2010, 5:44AM
Gov. Chris Christie's budget proposals have come under criticism.
Cuts weren’t necessary
Kevin Manahan’s column “Big blunder cost teachers their good will” (May 27) is all wrong.
Manahan assumes Gov. Chris Christie’s budget cuts are necessary. They are not necessary at all. Christie has chosen to address the state budget with drastic cuts in essential services instead of raising taxes in a progressive manner. He makes the working people of New Jersey, instead of those who earn higher incomes, take the pain.
This is wrong, fiscally and morally. We should reject this so-called plan to enrich the rich at the expense of the rest.
Manahan claims teachers should take pay cuts because other citizens have taken pay cuts, lost their jobs, etc. This too is absurd. Has Manahan taken a pay cut because many of his readers have lost jobs?