[tomder55]

This time it is in New Jersey . If you live there and work in NYC you get mugged every which way from Sunday. To drive in you have to sit in unbearable traffic crossing bridge and tunnel choke points. For the commute you get to pay $14-$18 a day depending on the time you cross.

The alternative is to take a train or other mass transit . It is an unbearable ride where they jam into smelly train cars and pay a fortune doing so (roughly $8-$17 depending on where they start the ride )

Yesterday the public unions representing the rails socked it to the commuters again. Train engineers ;who average $135,000 a year and some as high as $200,000 decided they were under paid. April they turned down an offer with a 38% increase.

New Jersey is already one of the highest taxed states in the nation. To service these demands the state would have to have a 27% increase in the Corporate Transit Fee, a 17% fare hike, or large reductions in service according to NJ Transit CEO Kris Kolluri .

NJ Transit strike could hit in 2 days. ‘We’re preparing for the worst,’ Murphy says.

This will keep on happening as long as public service unions are allowed to mug tax payers .