TRENTON. N.J. – When New Jersey residents and businesses leave the Garden State in search of cheaper pastures? They take their money with them. Trenton can’t tax ghosts. This painfully simple but oft-overlooked fact was further confirmed this week by Read More
The ‘minimum wage’ is rising without Trenton’s interference. | Rooney
By Matt Rooney _ New Jersey’s minimum wage just hit $11 per hour, Save Jerseyans, and will reach $15 in 2024 pursuant to last year’s new law. Small businesses are going to feel the pinch. Their employees will get the Read More
ANALYSIS: New Jersey’s income growth trails the national average
TRENTON, N.J. – It’s not good. Then again, when is it ever? Garden State Initiative (GSI), an independent research organization, analyzed new jobs numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics the week before Christmas. What it found: retail outlet-populated Read More
The huge reaction to Yang’s free income experiment shows why it wouldn’t work
By Matt Rooney _ These zany Leftists (and their equally zany schemes) are always so predictable, Save Jerseyans! Both in substance and how they inevitable end up. Remember last week’s Democrat debate? When Andrew Yang announced a Publisher’s Clearing House-style Read More
Evidence of a multi-million dollar fraud has been uncovered. The Murphy Administration isn’t acting.
TRENTON, N.J. – If there’s anything worse than government largess, Save Jerseyans, it’s when the waste is compounded by fraud. Recently, following an investigative report by News 12’s Walt Kane, the public learned that the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office had Read More
ROONEY: Newark’s universal basic income plan will be expensive, disincentivize work
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
Heavily-subsidized Newark, N.J. plans to experiment with ‘universal basic income’
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
N.J. Senate President wants this tax increase to replace Murphy’s millionaires tax plan
After declaring his opposition to a tax increase on wealthy New Jersey residents, Democratic state Senate President Stephen Sweeney said Tuesday state coffers can get the money they need by enacting a 3 percent surcharge on corporate income in New Read More
Webber: Only “cockroaches and New Jersey liberal tax hikes” could survive the apocalypse
By The Staff _ Governor Phil Murphy doubled-down on his desire for a millionaire’s tax at Thursday’s Chamber of Commerce event in Washington, D.C., raising the ire of some New Jersey conservatives. “High taxes are New Jersey’s very problem, not Read More