Why Does the Left Hate Blacks?

Republican Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election after the democrats split their votes between two pro-slavery candidates.

The democrat-led states then seceded to preserve slavery. After the Civil War, southern democrats continued to persecute black Americans through the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests.

In 1912, democrats elected Klansman and notorious segregationist Woodrow Wilson to the presidency. As president, Wilson segregated the federal government (even requiring applicants to include photos with their civil service applications) and appointed fellow Klansmen to high positions, including Justice Hugo Black, author of the notorious Korematsu decision which approved FDR’s internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.

When President Johnson passed civil rights legislation in the 1960s, he drew more support from the opposition Republicans than from his own democratic party.

This is not ancient history. Joe Biden has referred to school busing as “an asinine policy” and a “bankrupt concept.” He has praised fellow democratic senators, Eastland and Byrd. Senator Eastland was known as the “Voice of the White South.” Senator Byrd was both the longest serving U.S. senator in history and founder of the Sophia, West Virginia, branch of the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd claimed “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation." Joe Biden voted for Byrd to be the senate majority leader. 

Forty percent of abortions in American are performed on Blacks. The nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, was founded by Margaret Sanger, a proponent of eugenics and welcomed speaker at a Klu Klux Klan rally. She famously declared, "We don’t want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

Joe Biden supports Ralph Northam, governor of Virginia who sported blackface and klan garb in his med school yearbook.

Blacks are disproportionately poor. The left supports poverty traps in the tax code. When the marginal tax rate is measured as both the increase in taxes and loss of benefits on the next dollar earned, the people with the highest marginal tax rates are the working poor, sometimes losing as much as 70% on the next dollar earned.

The left supports regressive taxes and regulations that increase the cost of food and energy, which disproportionately impact the poor. The left blocks companies like Walmart from servicing needy communities.

Blacks are disproportionately the victims of violence. The left supports defunding the police, withdrawing security from minority neighborhoods, and releasing violent criminals.

Black children are disproportionately trapped in failing schools. The left supports blocking school choice, blocking charter schools, blocking school vouchers, and blocking school reforms.

Blacks are disproportionately unemployed and underemployed. The left supports the Davis Bacon Act, legislation requiring government contractors to pay “prevailing wages”. The legislation was specifically created to prevent blacks from competing with whites for jobs. The left also supports raising the minimum wage, which depresses youth employment.

Blacks are disproportionately in jobs that cannot telecommute. The left supports keeping segments of the economy shut down, even as the pandemic’s fatality rate continues to fall.

Mayor Tagliarini was a lifelong Republican until he joined the democrats to run for mayor. At the time, he told me party affiliation didn’t matter at the local level. If that was ever true, it certainly isn’t now. Time to ask the mayor, why are you still a democrat?

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Same Old Aberdeen

It’s been 10 years since I’ve lived in Aberdeen. Not much has changed. Mayor Tagliarini is still wondering how I discovered before he did that he’d be the democratic nominee for Mayor. Municipal budget is up 50% and Aberdeen has the highest property tax rate in Monmouth County for towns with an aggregate property value over $200 million. CME continues to fund the democratic campaigns for a license to pillage.

Still the same cast of characters on the town council except for relative newcomer, Abie Hirsch. 

Vincent Vinci is still lining his pockets at the firehouse after being pushed off the town council. Then again, he needs the money after getting scorched in property taxes on the land gifted to him by the township and county.

Greg Cannon is still plotting to become a power broker.

Still using Norman Kauff’s old law firm to represent the township.

Cambridge Club is finally open. (Yay!)

Affordable housing has arrived.

Crime is down.

Ten whole years. Feels like yesterday.

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A Series of Why

I am proud to be American.

I love America. I love my fellow Americans. I cherish American ideals. I thank G-d every day that I live in a country that is free, generous, and compassionate.

We are the nation that promotes and protects freedom, democracy, and prosperity around the world to billions of people.

We are the nation that feeds the world through our food and science.

We are the nation that powers science, healthcare, finance, and industry.

We are the nation of higher education, arts, culture, and entertainment.

We are the land of opportunity and home of the brave.

I am so very proud of our founding fathers and national leaders who risked all and achieved much. They did it for us so that we and our children could enjoy freedom and prosperity as no other people throughout history.

Today, there’s a movement afoot to tear it all down. Tear down our heroes, our monuments, our history, and our beliefs. These demagogues have no plans to build a better future. They simply desire to destroy our present and past.

They rewrite history, corrupt scientific study, and poison our educational system. They seek to divide us by race, wealth, religion, and beliefs, rather than unite us as Americans of a shared and glorious future.

They persuade through propaganda and false promises. Their solutions always lie in granting themselves more power over our lives.

They foment hate and rage.

They shall not triumph.

As President Reagan advised Americans of all generations, “When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”

I will be publishing a series of articles to expose the party of hate and asking, “Why?” Our freedoms are not the norm in human history. Our freedoms are not guaranteed. We must remain ever vigilant.

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Aberdeen’s Hapless Republicans

The Aberdeen Republican Party has a long history of fielding weak candidates without a winning campaign strategy. Continuing the trend, this year’s flag bearer is Michael Canberg, a new resident and community organizer with a troubled financial history.

Canberg rose to local fame after triumphantly blocking the expansion of a Jewish school in Cliffwood. He successfully cobbled together a coalition of those opposed to development, opposed to burdening the public school district, and opposed to Jews from Lakewood "ruining the neighborhood".

Having acquired a name for himself, Canberg’s fellow republicans nominated him for mayor without regard for his personal history.

In May, 2017, a sheriff seized Canberg’s house in Manalapan. According to the Deed of Foreclosure, Tropicana Casino and Resort is listed among those parties with a prior interest in the house, which might explain Canberg’s history of personal bankruptcies.

The county lists either a tax sale or foreclosure lispendens (notice of foreclosure) against Canberg in 1997, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, and 2015. In other words, from the year Canberg became an adult (1997) to the present.

Yet, the Republican Party doesn’t realize the irony of making Aberdeen’s debt (which is enormous) the centerpiece of its campaign.

At this point, I’d recommend the Aberdeen Republican Party reorganize as a church since it’s obviously a faith-based organization.

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Mostly True

It’s election season in Aberdeen and the Democrats are wagering they can extend their two-decade monopoly on the town council.

Statements on Facebook purporting to be from the candidates warrant a response.

“In the case of the Glassworks, 85% of the property is not part of a PILOT and will just pay ordinary taxes from day one.”

Glassworks is being built in stages. The 85% refers to the entire development but the PILOT only refers to the first stage. Nothing precludes the township from offering additional PILOTs for the later stage developments.

Furthermore, PILOT is only one of many ways to reduce a developer's cost. For example, the township had a practice of not assessing a property until a certificate of occupancy was issued. Since the developer didn’t request a C of O until the property was under contract, properties were nearly tax free until they were sold. Other likely benefits include scale of development, variances, infrastructure support, and ignoring violations.

In short, we don’t know what concessions the township is providing to the developer or whether they are appropriate.

“[P]eople confuse the fact that the the PILOT Payment on the 15% does not get shared with the school district with the notion that they're paying no taxes. And there's nothing that we can do on the local level to change that. The State Redevelopment Law says that it doesn't go to the schools.”

This is only half true. When the Jefferson (Avalon at Aberdeen Station) units were built, the township granted the school district $200,000 annually to cover the expenses from the handful of students residing in the new development. At the time, arguments were made the school district was entitled to its fair share of revenue but at least the township didn’t create a hardship for the schools. The new developments specifically call for family housing. The township did not fully weigh the financial burden or educational impact on the schools nor offer any grants from the PILOT money to offset the costs of the additional students.

“The town has only two imperfect tools to incentivize a developer to take down an abandoned factory or clean up an environmental mess: PILOTS and Abatements.”

Not true. How ironic to hear the Democratic leadership argue the only way to promote economic activity is through tax cuts to the wealthy.

As discussed above, there are numerous ways to entice development. Church St. development went from age-restricted housing to age-restricted and familly housing.

Manhattan has some of the highest taxes, restrictions, and burdens in the country yet there’s development throughout the city because the land is valuable. Aberdeen has a beautiful shoreline, parks, highway access, a train station, and boundless opportunity for improvement. Raise property values and developers will come begging.

To argue that taxes are the only way to entice development, suggesting it was the only thing negotiated between the developers and the township, says two things:
1) Cover up
2) The town council likes dropping their pants

“We made a deal with RPM Development whereby they would clean it up on their dime, help us clean up the adjacent lot, and in return, they got the property (which had negative value) for $1 and a PILOT agreement for the same term as the repayment of the money RPM borrowed to clean up the property.”

If true, that means RPM got the land for free plus a virtual tax credit equal to the cost of the cleanup. In other words, they got the land at no cost. Somebody made lots of money on that deal.

“[T]he PILOT payment goes directly into the municipal general budget and directly, dollar-for-dollar, lowers the residents' property tax levy - just like any other miscellaneous revenue. Now, you can say this is unfair to the schools, but it literally makes no monetary difference to a resident. Their four quarterly payments are going to be reduced by the PILOT revenue - the only difference is whether their municipal taxes are lower or their school taxes are lower. It's a zero-sum game regardless.”

Pure propaganda.

The notion that the township gets to pocket the revenue while the school district bears the cost “makes no difference” is shameful. It means the township does not recognize nor cares about the burden it places on the school district. And it assumes Aberdeen is a town of idiots.

Of course it matters whether money goes to the township or the school district. The township has far fewer restraints on increasing spending and far greater incentives to encourage development than the school district. This PILOT money will go towards municipal spending, not tax relief. The school district will get another influx of students without sufficient funding for them. The township will debate how to spend more money while parents and students fight over scarce resources.

And the school district is called Matawan-Aberdeen for a reason. A third of the school won’t be benefiting from the township’s munificence. Cardinal rule of getting along – Don’t piss upstream from your neighbors.

“Finally, people ask: why everything at the same time?”

Not exactly. People are asking why so much over development at the same time.

We know the answer to that question. With all due deference to Jessie J (Price Tag), it is all about the money, money, money. 

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