New Jersey’s Budget Reimagined
Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.
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The People’s Budget
In 2024, New Jersey’s budget is working well for the wealthiest by making the rest of us pay the bills.
New Jerseyans watch rent and property taxes increase at the same time they pay more for transportation, gas, groceries, insurance, healthcare, and all the while they receive fewer and less substantial services. But how have we responded? We’ve found even more ways to give the well off more breaks.
It’s unfair and it places the highest burden of running this state on the working class, poor and our most underserved communities. The budget process is backwards in New Jersey. We start from a place of scarcity. We ask ourselves, what crumbs do we have, and who should get them?
Instead it should start from a vision of equity and community, and the question should be, what do we need to attain it?
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It’s time we reimagine how our state pays its bills, who we expect to carry the costs, and how we invest in our future.
— Ras J Baraka
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