MORE TAX PUSHBACK: Corzine Feeling The Heat:

One week after Gov. Jon Corzine stunned taxpayers by declaring he planned to eliminate the property tax deduction on state income taxes for everyone but senior citizens, he told a group of residents at a neighborhood meeting in Eatontown that he was rethinking his position because he was getting a lot of “pushback.” Over the past few years, Corzine hasn’t worried much about pushback. With the election less than eight months away, he’s starting to pay more attention to what fed up taxpayers are thinking. It is likely no coincidence that his change of heart about the property tax deduction came just days after a Quinnipiac Poll showed that Republican gubernatorial front-runner Chris Christie had extended his lead in a hypothetical matchup with Corzine to 9 percentage points. . . .

Clearly, Corzine is in trouble. And he’s starting to act like he knows it. Three years of people complaining about high taxes, the need to rein in unions and his failure to do enough on ethics reform didn’t get through to him. The prospect of losing his re-election bid might. Keep pushing back.

Well, that’s why we have elections.