Only in New Jersey could black-robed "unelected" dictators — I mean judges — tyrannically find a constitutional right for citizens to have cheap housing at the expense of the taxpaying citizens, who somehow don't have that same right.

Only in New Jersey would state government use taxpayer money to pay farmers not to develop land, and then force a township to develop land for a densely populated development nearby.

Only in New Jersey would the state government say it is pro-environment, and then force a rural township to build water facilities and a sewerage plant for a COAHmandated densely populated development. This despite the fact that the taxpaying residents don't have those township-provided services.

Only in New Jersey would gang violence and drug activity proliferate in areas where there were never such activities and the state bureaucracy not be able to connect the dots to COAH.

Only in New Jersey would the unelected judges who conceived of, and the political hacks that administrate COAH, receive six-figure pensions.

Only in New Jersey would the basic economic principal of "whatever you subsidize, you get more of" be ignored by building even more low-income housing. Consequently, the proportion of low incomes will rise.

Only in New Jersey would the state continue these not-votedupon tyrannical policies, watch the educated middle class taxpaying base steadily move out, then not be able to figure out why the state is going broke.

Jeff Ziemba

Millstone