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The problem with the state's pension system isn't because of state workers like Bill. It's because of the politically connected people with the higher paying (and sometimes even no-show) jobs, and of course our wonderful elected officials that have their own personal agendas and don't give a damn what the tax-paying public wants. This is just a modern form of "taxation without representation". Technically we do have representatives, but the problem is the selfish bastards only represent themselves and not the people. They're the ones with the out of control pensions, and sometimes hold multiple state jobs to pad them even further. They wash each other's backs because what comes around goes around, and they'll all need a favor sooner or later. Perfect example...last year, "Acting Gov" Codey's brother Robert Codey, a state prosecutor, made a deal with Union County to give him a salary boost to $140,000, elevating his pay above the average for his job title and bumping his pension sharply higher.
The salary is $49,000 more than the average pay for his position as a deputy attorney general and $20,000 more than his direct supervisor and 136 other deputies who outrank Codey.
This is the kind of BS that needs to stop. This is why the state is in shambles and we're paying for it big time. We have a friend that works in the tax office here in town, and there are people in this God-foresaken town paying over $40,000/year in property taxes! I don't care if a home is 15,000 square feet....there's not a house on any property in NJ worth that much a year in property taxes! We're all being robbed, plain and simple, and it's not the little guy doing it.
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