Tough-talking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie thinks a bill to help low income senior citizens and disabled people pay for cable TV is "a dumb idea" and the $9.2 million earmarked for it--collected from taxes on cable TV operators--is on the "endangered list" when it comes to his proposed budget.
"To have the taxpayers of New Jersey pay for cable TV, I mean seriously, has cable TV become a constitutional right now that we are going to pay for, in this time of budget constraints?" Christie said.
What he didn't say is what will become of the $9.2 million already raised via taxes on cable TV providers. It's probably not going back to the operators and the consumers who paid it, because Christie's administration used it to help close a cable-unrelated budget deficit.
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