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Roads and Bridges

Poll: Nearly Everyone Wants N.J. Roads Fixed. Only Half Want To Pay. Poll: Nearly Everyone Wants N.J. Roads Fixed. Only Half Want To Pay.
Poll: Nearly Everyone Wants N.J. Roads Fixed. Only Half Want To Pay. A proposed federal spending package for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure is overwhelmingly popular in New Jersey. About 80 percent of respondents in a recent Stockton University survey support fixing bridges, tunnels and roads in the Garden State -- if the U.S. government pays for it. But if the plan is funded by New Jerseyans? Not so much. Just about half of respondents, 48 percent, said they would be unwilling to foot the bill, while 45 percent said they would be willing. “New Jersey is a very high-tax state, and taxpayers already feel that they are tapped out,” said Michael W. Kle…