Monday, July 11, 2011

O'Toole Condemns Sweeney's 'False Rhetoric'

New Jersey State Senator Kevin O’Toole, a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, released the following statement condemning Senate President Sweeney’s false rhetoric and use of faulty surplus numbers:

“Senate President Sweeney should know better – but he and his Democratic colleagues continue to put on the same politically motivated charade using phony facts.  The Senate President has used a faulty, inflated surplus size to justify his calls for spending the state simply cannot afford, but the facts simply prove him wrong.  Just as they did with their own dishonest budget, Democrats are failing to account for large amounts of spending that must be considered and are not a part of surplus, including savings estimates from health benefits reform and the real cost of providing more property tax relief to seniors through the senior freeze program.  

Democrats know their budget was nothing more than an election year gimmick and, even worse, they knew they did not have a way to pay for their promises.  But that has not stopped Sweeney and the rest of the Democratic Party from fueling their rhetoric with distortions, bad math and ridiculous revenue assessments.  It’s time for them to come clean about the real fiscal state of the budget, instead of continuing with their election year pandering.”

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