Chris Christie Rails Against Estate Taxes New Jersey Can’t Do Without
Though the governor says he wants inheritance and estate taxes gone, he’s fallen too short of a promised fiscal resurgence to do so.
Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, March 6, 2014.
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Everyone runs into death and taxes. New Jerseyans trundle on toward an afterlife in tax hell.
“I can afford to retire here,” said Susan Barbey, a 60-year-old resident of Ridgewood, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Manhattan. “I can’t afford to die here.”