By Chris DiPiazza _ It is no secret that every branch of New Jersey government is under the control of the Democratic Party led by Governor Phil Murphy. Although personally successful in his financial career, Governor Murphy is demonstrating no real Read More
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. – 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
ROSELAND, N.J. – Governor Phil Murphy’s tax-laden FY 2020 state budget proposal is getting low marks from New Jersey’s accountants. The New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA) polled approximately 500 state accountants this March, and 70% of those Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) released a new report on Wednesday which found New Jersey nursing one of America’s worst unfunded pension liabilities per capita. “Few states have engaged in overt underfunding as egregious as New Read More
By Matt Rooney _ “Elections have consequences,” Save Jerseyans. We hear it all the time. Usually, the famous admonition refers to stuff like judicial picks or policy shifts. In New Jersey? The most common “consequences” are cash, jobs, and other 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
LAKEHURST, N.J. — No funds for New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst are imperiled by the ongoing war over funding for President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexican Border Wall project. That’s the message Rep. Chris Smith (R-4), New Jersey’s last remaining Republican congressman, Read More
