Steve Adubato has a good post on PoliticsNJ:
Here’s the deal. If New Jersey citizens rightfully demand that property taxes either be reduced or at least kept where they are, something has got to give. Tough choices must be made. But those tough choices can’t only come from Trenton. Legislators and the governor can’t get it done alone. Local officials, as well as citizens in those communities, must decide what they really want. It’s simple math. If local officials are right, that the only way to keep property tax increases to four percent or less is to slash local services, citizens must decide if that is what they want. If that is not what they want, then there is no reasonable expectation that property taxes will go down.
If citizens don’t want to merge their fire and police departments or their local high school with a smaller high school in a neighboring town, they have every right to that, but then again there is no reasonable expectation that property taxes will go anywhere but up. Something has got to give — and fast. Simply saying, “I’m not the problem, it’s the other guy,” isn’t going to help because that approach is a big part of what got us in this property tax mess in the first place.
Couldn’t have said it better.
South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press
The Blog of South Brunswick
Hank Kalet 
No, the deal is that the whole concept is wrong. It\’s as wrong as being in Newark and trying to use a map of Camden. When one finally realizes that the map doesn\’t match the territory, you have to go back to basic assumptions.The tough choice is that two wolves and lamb can NOT vote on what\’s for dinner. Free public education is a disaster. Both for the welfare recipients (everyone with children) and those that pay for this welfare program (everyone who has property, earns income, or spends money in this state).Perhaps it\’s time to consider if \”schools\”, more properly called Government Education And Propaganda Camps, are something the government should do?Why when the Communists ripped children from their parents and families and send them to \”camps\” for \”education\” was the West outraged? When the Communists sent dissidents to \”camps\” for \”reeducation\” were we horrified. But, when the governments in the USA at various levels do the equivalent do we pat everyone on the back?I would assert that the Government should have no role in education. At the very least, it should have no role in operating an education systems. And in the extreme, forcing others to pay for such non-sense is immoral.(I blogged the details. This is enough for a comment.)http://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/liberty-nj-property-taxes-are-a-symptom-of-the-wrong-solution/http://tinyurl.com/2vk5j3