The Hoboken Tax Reform Coalition

HobokenRevolt is a waste of taxpayers time

You are all naive if you think you are trying some novel approach to the problem we have in this city.

The only thing that has proven effective was the Boston tea party. If you don’t have the guts to do it then stop pretending and stop wasting our time. In the meantime, of course, we will continue to have fun posting on this useless bulletin board that you so deceitfully call HobokenRevolt.

Everything that you have done like demonstrating your outrage for the 47% tax increase in front of city hall and demanding the resignation of a corrupt politician, the creation of the HobokenRevolt bulletin board, attending council meetings, pushing through the election of a new administration, writing letters to the government, and working within the system, has been tried by many others before you and I don’t have to tell you the results.

I’m ready for a REAL tax revolution.

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Permalink Reply by Gene on February 3, 2010 at 10:53am: It's easy to criticize. Now let's see your solutions.
Give us some definite actions you would take. Everyone wants to see this city get squared away; but words have not done it thus far.
We await your ACTION PLAN!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kurt Gardiner on February 4, 2010 at 3:27pm: Tea bagging is the wrong approach and the conotations of puritanical small government types associated with the dual meaning of the phrase "tea bagger" doesn't escape me.

I think just about everyone on this site agrees more cuts are needed and I concur. I am not a small government type for the sake of small government but I do have a feeling as do you more needs to be done.

Start by getting these audits completed and implement those recommendations. My gut instinct tells me Fire and Police are top heavy and City Hall is inefficiently staffed. I am not qualified to comment as to what thee appropriate levels are so I say leave it to the professionals but then hold the Administration and City Hall accountable to implement the bulk of those recommendations.

So the holdup to the proper process is Judy "Stall Tactics and my dog ate my homewrok" Tripodi. Any suggestions on how to fire her and get the process rolling on the audits would be appreciated. In the mean time you and Jim Vance can start your own complaint group lets say something like Vote Hoboken. Oops that already happened and look at the results. With that said Jim has some good ideas but that organization flopped pretty hard.

Seriously, any suggestions you have would be appreciated.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Fernanda Patterson on February 4, 2010 at 3:37pm: You seem to know all the answers. Please share them with us. I don't think anyone on Revolt is pretending. You are wasting everyone's time by blithering away and not proposing any solutions or making any concrete suggestions.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by npincus on February 4, 2010 at 7:09pm: Romanticizing The Boston Tea Party as a seminal moment in anti-British colonial resistance is one thing, but trying to recapture 18th-century magic with a 'Tea Party' -style tax protest in 21st century Hoboken, New Jersey is nonsense, absolute nonsense.

The colonists vented their fury on a commodity, tea, because they insisted they be taxed by their own elected officials ("No taxation without representation"). The British occupiers wouldn't allow the tea to be sent back, so the colonists dumped it all in Boston Harbor. That's 4th grade American history.

In over-taxed 21st century Hoboken, our ELECTED OFFICIALS are the problem-- through incompetence and corruption we are where we are-- it's our elected officials and their poor decision-making at the root of our tax woes. And we OWN the commodities being taxed, our homes. The bulk of our budget covers City employees and their benefits. So how do we proceed with your REAL tax revolution? What do we toss into the Hudson? Or whom? Our police and fire departments?

Respectfully, your argument suggests democracy doesn't work. What's your vision?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robins Reef on February 5, 2010 at 12:24pm: I would love to know who the nay sayers are? This guy and Jim Vance are just anti Hoboken Revolt but they never say exactly what they think should be done. Why such haters? Is it that Hoboken Revolt is a waste of time or they really have the ear of a lot of people who feel that they are doing stuff from the people's point of view and not some special interest groups like municipal employees, developers or other Hudson County politicians?

Have you seen Hoboken Now this morning? The former Chief, Tremetiti is also asking people to write to the state.

It looks like many people has asked Incognito Smith to share his ideas and he won't. What's up with that? Lame.; ▶ Reply to This