New Jersey

Gov. Corzine (from here on out will be referred to as Gov. Corslime) has been threatening to raise the tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway for some time now. I don’t know about you but I take the Parkway every day home from work and already pay $1.10 one way. I couldn’t imagine using the Turnpike twice a day now, let alone if/when the tolls go up. Instead of hurting the already over taxed people of New Jersey (we have the highest in the nation property taxes) for money problems our leaders are responsible for, not the people of New Jersey, why not lease advertising space on the Turnpike and Parkway. Lord knows we sit in enough traffic every day to read any and all advertising. Here’s my idea; instead of going through the Essex Toll Plaza or the Toms River Toll Plaza, you would go through the “Verizon Wireless Essex Toll Plaza” or the “Nike Toms River Toll Plaza”. This way, New Jersey will get some money and the tolls won’t have to go up as much as Gov. Corslime wants them to. I’m sure there are more ways to save and generate money if people started to think of them. We have to do something before the people of New Jersey are taxed and tolled out of the state- which may not necessarily be a bad thing. 