Someone has to stay on the line and say no we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state – and – and candidly across the country where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government county government local government has done all they can with the money we already give them rather than the money that we have before.
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Now in New Jersey we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction Mr. President not the wrong direction.
