New Jersey voters just sent another loud reminder of their disgust with out-of-control taxes.
Of 537 school budgets up for a vote in the Garden State, 315 — a whopping 59 percent — went down in flames Tuesday.
That’s more than the state’s seen in decades.
Why so many rejections?
Because some 80 percent of those budgets sought property-tax hikes.
As if Jersey isn’t already a national leader in property taxes.
As if ObamaCare, the stimulus and Washington’s trillion-dollar deficits hadn’t sent actual taxpayers into a lather.
Homeowners, in particular, have had enough.
Median tax bills in six Garden State counties are among the 10 highest in all of America. As a share of income, levies in Passaic and Essex lead the nation — with Bergen, Union, Hunterdon and Hudson not far behind.
School boards — and teachers unions that refused concessions — must have been dreaming if they thought voters would rubber-stamp tax hikes yet again.
No, this time taxpayers were paying . . . attention.
Fact is, last November’s election of Republican Gov. Chris Christie in Democratic New Jersey was no fluke.
Rather, it was part of a national tax revolt that gave rise to the Tea Party movement and stunning GOP wins in places like Virginia, Massachusetts and even New York.
(Just ask the former county execs of Westchester and Nassau, whose median property taxes were No. 1 and No. 2 in the nation, respectively.)
Indeed, the anti-tax spirit is showing no signs of wavering, even as this fall’s elections near. As Christie said, pols “ignore these results at their own political peril.”