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Urge Your New Jersey Representatives to Support Sensible Immigration Policies

With the New Jersey unemployment rate hovering around 9.1%, current immigration policies bring in 125,000 new foreign workers to the U.S. each month. This amounts to 1,500,000 foreign workers each year, who compete directly with New Jersey residents for New Jersey's job opportunities. This doesn't even include the million ILLEGAL aliens sneaking in yearly.

The current rate of immigration far surpasses our national traditional average of 250,000 new immigrants a year. Our present-day immigration numbers are highly unsustainable and harms both New Jersey workers and newly arrived immigrants alike. We all support immigration in moderation, but too much of anything can become harmful long term. During the current economic recession when thousands of New Jersey residents are struggling to find adequate employment, the current high levels of immigration are especially damaging.

Please send this critical message to your New Jersey U.S. House Representative and 2 New Jersey Senators today, urging them to restore U.S. immigration back to its traditional levels. This is a completely free service. There is no cost to you.

PRESS TO SEND THIS NO-COST FAX

Dear (Your 3 Members of Congress Will Appear Here),

With unemployment numbers skyrocketing and our nation unable to control its national debt, it is time for Congress to consider reducing overall immigration numbers.

The United States admits more than 1.5 million new foreign workers each year--not including the illegal aliens who arrive yearly. When our nation is trillions in debt and has a shortage of millions of jobs, there is simply no way to justify these numbers. Taxpayers end up subsidizing the Americans who lose their jobs because of immigration.

Please support measures that would end illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration to sensible numbers. The American people are counting on you to do the right thing. Please don't let us down.

Sincerely,
(Your Name Will Appear Here)

NumbersUSA, America's largest-member immigration-reduction
organization. We are non-profit and non-partisan.

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Jersians are unaware of sales taxes on homes

Another form of taxation to the homeowners of New Jersey is the Realty Transfer Fee (RTF), pursued aggressively under Jim McGreevey and continued by Jon Corzine as an additional source of revenue.

Many of you who count on the profit of your home to move into another or out of state, are hit with this regressive tax, also known as New Jersey’s exit tax.

The homeowner is penalized on all their years of hard work and investment that was put into that home, money taken from the equity that was built into the sale of that home.

You as a homeowner have to pay a tax for the privilege of selling your home.

Also, on a foreclosure, a realty transfer fee must be paid on the remaining balance of the mortgage, by the purchaser.

The home sales tax due on a home that sells for $356,700 is $2,800; a $600,000 home would have to pay $5,185. The New Jersey State Legislature is considering further increases to the home sales tax by permitting individual municipalities to establish their own fees in addition to those charged by the state. With the extra tax, the home sales tax bill would increase 13 percent. Many who sell their home are not informed of this tax, and are surprised when hit with the additional fees taken from the profit at the time of closing.

Since 2003, this tax has increased over 80 percent, and with the added municipal home sales tax, it would make it 103 percent since 2003.

With the higher realty transfer fee increase imposed in 2004, there was an 81 percent increase, with the state general fund receiving 57 percent of the total realty transfer fee, 19 percent for the state’s Extraordinary Aid Account (EEA), 18 percent to the Neighborhood PNRF, 18 percent to the counties for general use, and 7 percent for the counties’ Public Health Priority Fund, with a portion dedicated to affordable housing.

The 1968 fee in the beginning was revenue collected to cover the costs of recording real estate transactions. Having risen four times since then, increasing substantially each time, it is now used to fund general state expenditures, neighborhood preservation, public health, and shore protection.

Is Gov. Corzine telling us that state government will now keep all of what they receive from the realty transfer tax, with the municipalities now able to charge a tax to make up for what they won’t be getting back from the state? Would this be considered double taxation?

This is a huge sum of revenue to the state. Was anyone keeping tabs on how it was spent? Or were the funds escalating year after year, just because there was an eternal, never-ending flow of tax revenue?

Has the state decided to keep all of the money as another alternative to be used toward balancing the budget?

This is one more tax burden that needs to be brought under control, and the monies collected must be accounted for.

Joe Sinagra
Candidate
N.J. 18th DistrictState
Assembly Helmetta

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