Morris County Tax Board: Bipartisan Dimwits?

So a grand jury is looking into the trips and perks of the bipartisan (by law) Morris County Tax Board, according to Sunday's Ledger (more here).

And their eating habits.

Or at least their restaurant receipt habits.

Seems that besides junketing all over the country -- ostensibly studying the fine points of tax board duties -- two of them had the astounding coincidence of swaths of restaurant receipt stubs that form long unbroken sequences.

The Ledger includes a table showing receipts in a sequence from #717612 through #717694, submitted variously by the two officials dining in venues from Alaska to Atlantic City, from Kansas City to Orlando.

What are the chances of waitresses in these cross-continent locales working from identically printed receipt books with the same numeric sequence?

"Coincidence," said one of the board members, a contributor to Plainfield political campaign committees.

A more reasonable explanation might be that they came from a single receipt pad, purchased perhaps at a local Staples store, where the pads are -- forgive me -- a staple in the stationery section.

Sure beats a roomful of monkeys trying to type Shakespeare.

Seems likely that if the grand jury returns indictments this may lower the dollar value floor of New Jersey corruption to perhaps less than $10.

For how much jail time?

I nominate these guys for the Darwin Awards (though they only qualify for the 'Not Quite Dead' section, since true winners must decease themselves through their activity).

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Ledger: "Morris tax board is probed by grand jury"
Morris County: "Board of Taxation"

-- Dan Damon

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