By Art Gallagher _ Governor Phil Murphy and his team apparently failed to account for the impact on the minimum wage increase he signed into law earlier this year will have on his own State Budget. Senator Declan O’Scanlon called Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – Did your legislators protect your tax dollars during the 2018-2019 legislative session? Our friends at Americans for Prosperity-New Jersey released their annual taxpayer scorecard on Friday morning. _ “It is no secret that New Jersey’s fiscal house Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark wants to implement a “universal basic income” experiment in the Brick City, one which would be de facto paid for by the suburbs due to his city’s extremely high percentage of state Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – There’s more bad news on the New Jersey economic front. New Jersey shed 9,300 private sector jobs in February 2019 while adding 1,600 public sector (government) positions. _ National job growth slowed nationally in February; a net Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey gets only $0.33 back for every $1 its residents and businesses send to Washington, D.C. on an annual basis. By comparison, North Carolina gets $1.55 back and Mississippi recoups $4.38. As if the situation wasn’t Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – Governor Phil Murphy has signed the controversial rain tax into law. The Democrats’ radical plan (click here for the bill) was sent to the Governor’s desk at the end of January. New Jersey municipalities are now free Read More
By Matt Rooney _ It failed spectacularly in Finland and Canada. It fails everywhere it’s tried. Newark, New Jersey is ready to give ‘universal basic income’ a go all the same, Save Jerseyans, and you’ll be footing the bill. _ Mayor Read More
By Matt Rooney _ Governor Phil Murphy wants a new and more dramatic millionaire’s tax, Save Jerseyans. The idea is that there are enough rich guys and gals left in New Jersey to fund ever-increasing spending and legacy costs (pensions, Read More
By Matt Rooney _ New Jersey Republicans are rudderless at the moment. They’re unable to speak with one voice for a few glaring reasons, one of which being that there isn’t any consensus among the legislative caucus as to what Read More
