NJ hates taxes, but keeps electing Democrats to raise them

Washington Times:

New Jersey voters say the most serious problem confronting their state isn't the war in Iraq, immigration or the budget deficit, it is taxes -- on their property, purchases and at the gas pump.
This was the overwhelming response to an open-ended poll question that allowed respondents to give any answer they chose. No other issue -- not the economy, education, crime, health care, government spending or even the tide of illegal immigration -- even came close, according to the Quinnipiac University poll.
When asked, "What do you think is the most important problem facing New Jersey today?" 46 percent replied taxes -- a percentage that was higher than any problem listed in any previous Quinnipiac statewide or national poll, the survey group said. The 46 percent included 19 percent who complained about all taxes, 26 percent who said property taxes, and 1 percent who said gas taxes.
"Almost half of New Jersey voters, an unprecedented number, say taxes are the biggest problem facing the state, and most of them mean property taxes," said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
That response has deep political implications for Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, who ignited a taxpayer revolt with a proposal to raise the state sales tax to 7 percent, as well as in the U.S. Senate race, where Republican state Sen. Thomas Kean Jr. is making taxes a major issue in his bid to oust Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez in November.
Mr. Kean's campaign strategists think voter anger over the sales-tax increase plan and rising property-tax assessments, combined with Mr. Menendez's reluctance to criticize Mr. Corzine, will help the Republican lawmaker reach out to the state's heavily Democratic electorate.
"For two years now, we've been polling on this issue and found New Jersey voters consider property taxes the worst tax of all. Time and time again, they have been promised relief and nothing has happened," Mr. Richards said.
Outside of President Bush's recent victory in Congress, in which his tax cuts on capital gains and stock dividends were extended, the tax issue seems to have receded from the national agenda. But the latest New Jersey poll results, which mirror similar property-tax complaints in other states such as Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, suggest that it is becoming a growing local issue in the 2006 elections.

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If you are upset about taxes, why do you keep electing Democrats, because you know they love taxes and think that everone else does too? With the exception of Richardson in New Mexico, Democrats love taxes and want to raise them on every level. They think they need them to feed their constituency. Even when Democrats say they will not raise taxes, they will anyway. When their core beliefs about electibility and raising taxes are in conflict, they dissemble and lie about raising taxes then do it. That is what Clinton did in 1992 and it is what Corzine did in New Jersey.