fisherman bob wrote:8K a year for property taxes? How many people live in your state? Is your state going broke? Is your state's infrastructure crumbling? WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY DISAPPEARING TO? WHO'S RIPPING US OFF? By the way your blues song is pretty good. I agree the vocals need to dried off a lot. I never have liked reverb on vocals. Makes people sound like they're singing at the end of a big tunnel, not natural sounding vocals. Later...
8 $K a year in property taxes is avarage in New Jersey, in some counties like Bergen and Sussex counties propery taxes go up betweeb $12 and $14K ayear all in the name of maintening the triple "A" status of the state.
Bob the population in Jersey is less then 9 million, this state like any other runs on a badget deficit, where does the money go? good question my guess is it goes between waist, corruption, patronage, chronism and down right incompetence in financial managment, I'll give you an example, we have two toll highways here called Turnpike and Parkway each producing roughly $100 million a year, this money is allocated for road maintenance and up grades, well only one third of toll revenues goes for road maintenance the other two thirds goes toward salaries, benefit retirement plans and health care insurance for these toll roads employees which number couple thousand, not a bad deal for these guys, splitting amongst themselves over $70 million every year, of course to get a job with with the Turnpike or Parkway one has to be a politician chrony ready to kiss ass any time he or she is called upon.
Sorry to digress, thanks for your comments on the blues, the vox with the reverb is due to one of those cases of making it betterbut it backfired on me, the worst part is that when I got done singing it I thought it was pretty good, man was I wrong, that's why the members of Band mix are so useful, they have a way yank you out of one's dillutional state and slap you back into reality.
Be well
