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...second major issue in the campaign has been state expenditure and taxes. Forbes has attacked Meyner as the "spendingest" governor in New Jersey history (his budgets have totalled $292 million more than those of his predecessor, Republican Alfred E. Driscoll). Actually, the issue is not at all clear-cut, for Forbes has also said that he would not reduce the budget, but would simply redirect it into different, and supposedly more fruitful, channels...
...large budget has led directly to the most made-up issue of the campaign--taxation. Both candidates need money to support their programs, yet apparently neither will tax anybody to get it. Forbes has created the issue by claiming that Meyner, if reelected, will institute a state sales or income tax, and he has pledged himself to fight these new taxes. Under pressure, Meyner has also qualifiedly declared himself against the two taxes. And both have let it be understood that they will not increase taxes on real property owners...
...basic problem in the financial issue is that many needed state services have been provided and expanded over the past four years--services that both candidates agree are desirable--yet both are afraid to tell the people that someone will have to pay for them. Under Meyner's administration, direct state aid to education has tripled, new roads have been built, and better health facilities have been provided. Forbes finds it hard to argue that these are undesirable ends, hence he has been forced to claim that he could provide the same services more efficiently and without instituting new taxes...
...absence of any real local issues, the campaign has taken on national overtones. It is automatically assumed that Meyner has presidential aspirations for 1960. And the Republicans have come to regard the election as an important national morale factor...
...Meyner has tried to campaign solely on local issues, probably in an effort to avoid bringing the highly-popular President Eisenhower into the state. But Forbes has relied greatly on Ike's popularity in traditionally Republican New Jersey. He has told Negro audiences that a vote for Republican candidates is "the only way you can tell the President he did right" in Little Rock. And a long train of Republican national figures, from Vice-President Nixon and three cabinet members down to a group of campaign strategists, has entered the state on Forbes's behalf. If Forbes wins, and most...