Dear Mr. Mulshine – Please check your “facts”
I was reading this column by Paul Mushine yesterday in which Mr. Mulshine opines about the exorbitant property taxes being paid by our Governor. Now, personally, I’d prefer to keep our Governor out of this. This isn’t about him. It’s about an expensive house in a relatively wealthy suburban town in Morris County and the property taxes you have to pay when you live in an expensive house. Let’s keep it at that. Mulshine points to the rather eye-popping annual property taxes on the house which are over $37,000.
Mulshine attributes the high property tax bill to state policies which take suburban money and give it to poor urban cities and school districts, referring more than once to the state school finance formula.
As Mulshine argues:
Just when the heck is he going to demand we change the formula for handing out state property-
