Pollsters construct poll with wrong assumptions

Save Our Homes and Our Future
The latest Monmouth University/Gannett NJ poll help perpetuate the myth about the property tax. The myth is that it is assumed to permanent. Why?

Should the question not have been asked whether anyone wants to retain it at all?

Instead, the questions assume this egregious and unjust tax is here to stay. So it is no wonder when I speak to people who agree it is an oppressive and inequitable tax, they think the only hope is to reduce its level of taxation. It never occurs to them that it must or even can be eliminated.

When asked if it should be, they mostly agree. When asked if it can be eliminated, they assume it cannot be.

Why not? It is only not possible when people determine ahead of time that it cannot be done. They have this idea in their head and act accordingly. Is it rationally based? Of course not. The property tax is not an unchangeable law of the Universe, forever fixed in time and space. But people are making decisions as if it were.

So, it is merely an idea that prevents getting rid of the property tax. And when large, influential organizations fail to even float the idea, it never gets traction. This is a shame. Get the idea in your head that the property tax can be eliminated and it can happen. As simply as changing your mind.