NJ Taxes - What's up with that dude?

In this humorous spoof letter in the Tri-Town News, we get an equal comedy treatment on the two candidatates.

You'd no doubt like to go first this week, so you could pole ax me with the fact that John McCain couldn't remember how many houses he has, in answer to a question by some smart-aleck reporter. Could be seven, maybe more, and he suggested that nosy reporters check with his staff.

That's the only problem with marrying a beer distributor heiress who is worth $100 million. You forget about little things, like houses.

But he doesn't hold his fire just to McCain.

I think it's funny when the pundits try to contrast McCain's houses with man-of- thepeople Barack Obama, living in hardscrabble Hyde Park in Chicago, scrimping by on $4 million a year, in a $1.5 million mansion. Poor Barack. I bet he had to split rails to buy that house. Now there's a guy who can relate to my predicament!

But the real joke in this article is the following slam on New Jersey:

I bet you folks in New Jersey - which, congratulations, just moved into the No. 1 spot in the annual Tax Foundation survey of total tax load by state - have no problem remembering how many houses you own.

What I can't figure out is why you keep electing Democrats. Every map I see shows New Jersey as blue as blue can be. Do you really think tax-raising Barack Obama is going to make things better in New Jersey? You're not buying that crock, are you, Old Pal ? At least the Republicans have the common decency to lie to you about not raising taxes. The Democrats won't even make the effort to lie! What' s up with that, dude?

Yeah. What IS up with that?

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