Save Jerseyans, as a student and a local elected official, I thought it was necessary to weigh in on the gas tax talk this week: We aren’t the first state that’s been thrown under the gas tax bus. The federal Read More
Christie dips into general fund as TTF stalemate drags on
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog TRENTON, NJ — With a a stalemate over how to replenish New Jersey’s near-depleted Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) dragging into its second month, Save Jerseyans, Governor Chris Christie is taking further emergency Read More
THE LIST: Christie names 900+ stalled TTF-funded projects
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog Governor Chris Christie‘s pre-July 4th Weekend executive order shuttering state road projects in the wake of a transportation trust fund stalemate is being implemented, Save Jerseyans. All work on ongoing projects funded by the Read More
Trenton is broken. How broken? Not one TTF plan touches the real problem!
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog There’s no shortage of ideas floating around Trenton concerning how to “fix” the much-discussed Transportation Trust Fund (TTF), Save Jerseyans. I’d feel a lot better about it if ONE IDEA, just one Read More
A Republican Plan to Raise Gas Tax and Refuel Transportation Trust Fund
Sen. Steve Oroho (R-Sussex) speaking to reporter’s inside the State House about why the state should increase the gas tax to renew the Transportation Trust Fund. Democrats, who control the Legislature, have said for months that hiking the gas tax Read More
Small business group: Christie’s $380 million tax cut is a ‘short-lived victory’
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog Governor Christie is pushing a massive cut in New Jersey’s unemployment insurance taxes on employers, Save Jerseyans, but Laurie Ehlbeck of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). “Small businesses fighting for survival in Read More
Guest Op-Ed: Stopping The Next Property Tax Explosion
By Senator Steven V. Oroho In the 1990’s state government in New Jersey off-loaded responsibility for paying for many of the things government does on to the shoulders of local government. It caused a dramatic surge in property taxes. Now Read More
Webber pokes fun at “wimpy” Democrat gas tax trade-off
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it, Save Jerseyans. Those people would be Democrats. Last week they released ‘tax reform’ proposals to fund the state’s transportation rust fund – Read More
Serious Question: Why is it the GOP’s responsibility to fix the transportation fund?
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog If the rejoined pension and benefits brawl is illustrative of everything that’s wrong with New Jersey’s governing regime, Save Jerseyans, then the fight over how to replenish our state’s transportation trust fund Read More