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If Florida Can Do it, Why Can’t New Jersey?' Florida, a state with the its current fiscal problem. contractors. But whereas Florida col which arc sufficiently similar the field auditing force of the and an additional 2% (total 3. Provide substantial real me population as New Florida, like New Jersey, has Foosaner proposed, also, a lects on 45% of the business to warrant citing. New Jersey New Jersey sales tax division 7%) on the purchase of such estate tax relief. next year to col no income tax. The sales tax widening of the sales tax base receipts, Foosaner said New and Florid a each has could result in collection of items on all amounts paid in on its sales .tax almost obviously ii. sufficient. to bring in more revenues. Jersey collects only 34%. somewhat in excess of seven additional rax revenues which excess of $300 Foosaner also said it as much as New Jersey According to information Foosaner has made Thus, Foosaner said. New million residents. The gross would be many times greater would be possible to repeal passed on by Foosaner, numerous approaches to New Jersey’s sales tax over-all ii receipts from all sales are 4 The additional one and than the expenditure in two percent charged on higher the so-called “ Unearned In Yet the Florida tax is only Florida intends in 1976-77 to Jersey legislators. At public about I l/i% instead of 5%. about the same in the two volved." come Tax” law which he cal collect $14 billion on its 4% hearings he has spoken on the “The State of Florida,'* states That is were the priced clothing could also be compared to New Jersey’s Foosaner recommended applied to transportation led “one of the most un sales tax. problem of taxes said Foosaner, “which has similarities stop, however." studied, inequitable and In his most recent state one of the most comprehen I Require full payment on vehicles and jewelry — raising This fact has been brought New Jersey estimates it Florida’s “take,” said frustrating pieces of tax ment Foosaner said it is il sive, well-balanced and exemptions now permitted so a total of SI 5 million to $25 [ dramatically in material will collect only $885 million Foosaner, is much higher than million. legislation ever enacted in the luminating to compare New realistic acts dealing with the that the deserving then can before the New Jersey on a 5% tax. New Jersey’s even though State of New Jersey ” Jersey with Florida. Both sales and use taxes in the make application for repay With this program. ure by Samuel Florida gives a 3% dealer’s “ Leak age” is blamed by states have populations of country today, provides many ment. Foosaner said, it would be oosaner of U ppcr credit as compensation for Foosaner said “To keep Foosaner for a major part of about seven million, Foosaner figures readily comparable to possible: one of the nation’s services rendered, records 2. Impose a sales lax of 5% the 'unearned income tax' law the New Jersey shortfall in pointed out. They also New Jersey While it is a tax lawyers. maintained, etc. on all amounts in excess of 1. To comply with the on the books will be to sales Uix collections. He es generate about the same much different state S20 but not in excess of SI00 Supreme Court order by put progressively encourage many By addressing himself to timates over $100 million is amount of business — $78 bil geographically and in its “From everything which for separate items of clothing. ting up the required S378 mil of the Slate's more substan state sales tax, Foosaner lost in failure to monitor ex lion of which about $35 mil character, there are aspects of the writer (Foosaner) has 3 Impose a sales tax of 6% lion. tial property holders to es told the legislators, it emptions claimed by tax- lion falls within the sales tax its problems insofar as sales been able to ascertain," wrote on all items of clothing in ex 2. Restore funds absolute tablish their legal domiciles in net. Id solve almost completely exempt organization and their and use taxes are concerned Foosaner, “an expanding of cess of SI00 but not over S300 ly necessary other jurisdictions.” M IN IT E D Buried deep in the feasibili ty study prepared by the Port Authority for the proposed New York C onvention and Exhibition center appears the fol lowing paragraph — “ Sewage. The sewage from this area of Manhattan will eventually be treated at the North River Treatment Plant. W ith the city’s present financial burdens, work on the superstruc (flonnncrcial TÍTcahcr ture of the plant has been s topped and no opening date can be forecast." This s houldn't stop Little Old New York from going right ahead with a plan to and SOUTH-BERGEN REVIEW 1 5 Cents per copy build a center to be visited by millions even though the sewage would have no place to go but in the Hudson River! Vol. 55, No. 44 UtM o. Ml ».<*. U ItMhM J « IW .1 Thursday, June 17, 1976 Subscripto* 14 SO Pjbltthad Ordinance Putting Costs Of Vandalism On Parents By Amy Divine be subjected to a $500 fine A brief filed by an attorney Í staled that "state lawdocs now At Tuesday's meeting of upon conviction. on behalf of the city states allow the submission of the Lyndhusrt Beard of Com She appealed the o r that the measure imposes juvenile records to municipal missioners Mayor Anthony dinance's legality, lost her “direct liability upon parents courts.” Scardino, Jr., directed case in Superior Court and for neglect" The ordinance Both the mayor and Township Attorney Gaberial this week the state appeals was designed, the brief added, township attorney will follow Ambrosio to draw up an or court will rule on the con to “provoke some form of the case closely. Meanwhile, dinance which he hoped stitutionality of the or positive response from an Scardino and a committee are would lower the juvenile dinance. otherwise neglectful parent searching out means of cut delinquency and vandalism Provisions of the ordinance whose real relationship to his ting down on local juvenile wave in the township. The or which appealed to Scardino minor children has been al delinquency and vandalism, dinance would be based on are: it makes parents respon lowed to deteriorate, by his and are hopeful of coming up one now being contested in sible for their children and neglect, lo the point where the with a legal means of doing Trenton. It is called the they can be charged with parent has little or no control so. Parental Responsibility Or neglect if a child is convicted over the behavior of the During ihe course of ihe dinance. It provides for fine« of juvenile delinquency twice child.” meeting the Youth Center lo parents whose child is con within a year, makes it illegal The brief staled in conclu was presented a gift check for victed of juvenile delinquency for a parent to “assist, aid, sion that the ordinance was $500 by Mrs. Palsy DeLoy, twice in * year. abet, allow, permit, suffer or created lo fill the public need widow of Patsy DeLoy whose The test of the Trenton or encourage” a child to commit for a reduction in juvenile great pleasure' was keeping dinance came about after a an act of juvenile delinquency, delinquency by instilling in the parks and pJaygounds of 13-year-old boy there was ar which include* offenses rang parents a “sense o f respon the township in beautiful con rested by local police. When a ing from defacing or damag sibility'' toward their dition for the use and pleasure judge later found the teenager ing property to robbery. It children. o f the children. Mrs. Evelyn guilty, as it was the second also punishes parents for their The Public Defender issued Pezzolla. chairman of the conviction of the boy in less “ f a ilu r e to exercise a brief which said, among Adult Advisory Committee of than a year, his mother was reasonable parental control other things, that it would re the Youth Center accepted The Lyndhurst Bi-c entennial Committe« “ selected those people »ho serted their community in various ways” and liable to be found guilty of and custody over their quire a juvenile's record in the gift with deep apprecia each received a Honorary Chairman certificate from Chairman Phil DeParto. L to R—Mr. DeParto; Mayor neglecting her child and could children.” order to convict his parent in tion. and said it will be used in Anthony Scardino; Guy Savino; W alter Janowski; W illiam Gallagher: Pete C'urcio; Joseph Carucci and Peter Rus- municipal court but that state the enlargemwnt of the pre law does not perm it a sent Center on Riverside Subject: Vandalism juvenile's record to be used in Avenue in the park. She ad municipal courts, since delin ded that donations to the Heavy Fine Meted To Kearny Driver Mayor Scardino on called, one of the juvenile of quency matters are delegated Youth Center Building Fund Wednesday night met with a ficers would be available to by state law to be under the will be gratefully received by respond Chief Jarvis said sole jurisdiction of the the committee. Frank Crapanzano, 72 with a motor vehicle” as Arlington, paid $15 in fine likewise, and that the officer representative group con that with the limited number Juvenile and Domestic rela The contract for surfacing David Avenue, Kearny, was charged by Ptl.

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