Today is my lucky day! The daily $5 lunch special at Lakeside Deli cost me a whole penny less, because Chris Christie's Sales Tax Cut kicked in!

Yup, 'tis true. NJ's 7% Sales Tax is now, drum roll please!, 6.875%.

A whopping 1/8 of a percent less!

Which means last week's $5.35 lunch bill is now $5.34.

Of course my euphoria is short-lived, because we only got this massive sales tax cut in exchange for a 23 cent per gallon hike in the gas tax. And I've already been paying that new tax for a few months now.

See how that works? Raise one tax by 23 cents. Cut another tax by 1/184th of that much. Because, fairness, or something.

So I guess I should save this penny for posterity. Or until the next time I need to buy gas, whichever comes first.

Thanks Governor!
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