With Gov. Christie's first budget address days away, we thought we'd tally up some of the winners and losers in the first few weeks of his administration. (Please note there are many more losers after the governor made close to 400 budget cuts to close to 2010 fiscal year budget gap; the following is just a sampling).:

Winners 

• Families with incomes above $400,000 and small businesses: Corzine, following Christie’s direction, allowed a temporary income tax hike for the wealthiest families to sunset in December. The sunset would also help some small businesses.
• Employers: if Christie’s unemployment insurance fund proposal is enacted, employers would pay an average of $130 more per year per employee starting in July, instead of the average increase of $400 that had been set to take effect.
• Corporations: Christie has promised to get rid of a 4 percent tax surcharge on corporations. The surcharge is on top of a 9 percent corporation tax.

Losers

• The unemployed: If a Christie proposal to shore up the unemployment insurance fund is adopted, maximum unmemployment benefits would max out at $550 per week instead of $600 a week and recipients would have to wait one week before receiving the benefits. Extended benefits would also be contingent upon continued full federal funding. The changes would only apply to those who lose their jobs after the new rules takes effect.
• Government employees: A bill approved in Senate, supported by Christie, would make relatively modest pension and benefits reforms for public employees - the most significant requires all government workers to contribute 1.5 percent of their salaries toward health benefits. Also, the governor cut $100 million of contributions toward government employee pensions to close the fiscal year 2010 budget gap.
• Hospitals: Lost $25 million in charity care funding, half from the federal government and half from the state, to close the fiscal year 2010 budget gap.
• NJ Transit riders: Fare hikes of 25 percent are expected to take effect as early as May 1 after Christie cut state aid. 
• Lower income legal immigrants who are not citizens: FamilyCare, the state program providing health benefits for low- to moderate-income families will exclude legal immigrants who are not citizens, which means an estimated 11,700 adults will lose their benefits.
• Clean energy - The governor cut about $300 million from clean energy programs.
• Some school districts - The state will withhold aid to school districts with surpluses above the 2 percent allowed by law. Those districts will be forced to use those "excess surpluses" to finish the school year. Those without additional surpluses were not affected, leading some to say the governor was punishing school districts for planning ahead.

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