UNION COUNTY, N.J.— The giant U.S. baby food company Gerber is the latest corporation to flee tax-toxic New Jersey, Save Jerseyans, announcing plans this week to relocate from its Florham Park headquarters to Arlington Virginia.
Gerber says it will invest $5 million and create 150 new jobs at its Virginia location.
180 New Jerseyans will lose their jobs unless they relocate with the company.
U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin (R) placed the blame squarely at the feet of New Jersey’s Democrat governor, Phil Murphy.
“Yesterday’s announcement that Gerber plans to move its headquarters out of New Jersey should be a wake up call for Governor Murphy that more tax increases will only export more jobs out of New Jersey. I have spent decades creating good-paying, high-skill jobs right here in New Jersey, and I know what it takes to keep them here,” said Bob Hugin, the newly-former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Celgene.
In his first few months in office, Murphy has pitched billion-dollar plus tax increases and his Democrat allies have proposed new, business crushing taxes and regulations of their own.
New Jersey is already saddled with one of America’s most onerous business tax climates.
Hugin’s campaign aimed to drive the point home on Tax Day, photo-shopping Murphy’s head and that of the Democrat incumbent, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, on jars of baby food.
“Unfortunately, politicians like Governor Murphy and Senator Bob Menendez continue to increase taxes on hard-working New Jerseyans, making our state less competitive and increasingly unaffordable,” Hugin added.
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