A Simple Suggestion for Governor Christie

"Citizens in New York and New Jersey were pawns on a political chess board last night...that's why people hate Washington D.C." 

-NJ Gov. Chris Christie

In lobbying the U.S. Congress for $60 Billion in relief aid for the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, the Governor of New Jersey has harped on one very important point.  But, first he is upset about two things:

1 - His own party is preventing him from bringing back taxpayer dollars to his state.  This will cost him votes in future elections for any post he seeks.
  
2 - The hurricane hit 66 days ago which is much longer than victims of previous storms had to wait for federal funds (really just feeds into item #1).

The Governor has repeated a key point that NJ residents pay more in federal income taxes to Washington than they ever get back in federal spending.  As governor of New Jersey he should be even more upset that his constituents are getting ripped off every day to support the political machine in Washington.    

He stresses that he has "a job to do".  We assume that he means rebuilding the shore and other areas hard hit by Sandy.  One simple way to achieve this end is to direct the 4 million federal taxpayers of New Jersey to suspend all federal income tax payments immediately.  This would free vast amounts of resources that the residents of New Jersey could then use to rebuild their state.  They could handle the rebuilding on a local level and bypass Trenton entirely.  

If Christie was truly representing the people of NJ he would have promoted this solution during his news conference today.  He had 38 minutes to speak to reporters and answered a dozen questions yet never once did he mention the obvious solution of NJ taxpayers using their funds for their own rebuilding effort instead of sending their hard earned money off to Washington for war making efforts and interest payments on U.S. treasury bonds.

An honest governor who was sent to Trenton with "a job to do" would be protecting the private property of his state's residents from the bandits in Washington.