Budget cuts hurt everyone but the rich

Anyone who thought cutting the state budget would be easy should read this story. These job cuts will add to the state’s unemployment rate and, along with the tuition hikes already planned, take one of the better state college and university systems in the country and weaken it. But that’s alright, because the state’s richest taxpayers didn’t have to pony up anymore in taxes this year.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet