Christie: Cable TV Welfare Is Dumb
By Art Gallagher
Governor Chris Christie called an Corzine era law that would help low income seniors and the disabled pay their cable TV bills “a dumb idea.”
“It was a dumb idea in my opinion,” Christie said. “To have the taxpayers of New Jersey pay for cable TV, I mean seriously, has cable TV become a constitutional right now we are going to pay for, in this time of budget constraints?
The Corzine administration implemented the tax on cable bills to fund the program, but never got around to implementing the distribution of the funds. The Christie administration used the $9.2 million generated by the tax to plug the budget deficit last year.
Posted: February 8th, 2011 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie | Tags: Cable TV Welfare, Chris Christie | 8 Comments »