State Senate President Steve Sweeney said recently that legislative reform of the state’s public workers’ pension and health insurance plans will make New Jersey a more affordable place to live.
You know what else the state can do to make living here less like doing hard time on taxation island? Follow through on the promise to legalize recreational marijuana and use the additional revenue to provide some relief to taxpayers.
We realize it won’t alleviate all of New Jersey’s tax woes, but it sure could help.
By many estimates, recreational weed sales will exceed $1 billion each year, adding millions of dollars in tax payments to the state’s coffers. Recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, a state with a smaller population, surpassed the $1 billion mark in the first eight months of this year.