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Due to High Taxes and Costs, Poll Shows 44% of NJ Residents Want to Leave
Posted On12/02/2019 byThanks to the Garden State Initiative and Fairleigh-Dickinson for their recent polling, which serves to confirm what SPCNJ detailed in its recent report “Beware the Downward Spiral.” For decades, New Jersey’s most powerful special interest, the New Jersey Education Association, has pushed for higher government spending and the higher taxes to pay for it. The…Read More
Working Families Makes A Lot of Noise But Remember Whom They Speak For
Posted On11/20/2019 byInsiderNJ reports that Working Families Alliance head Sue Altman had to be removed from a legislative hearing on the Economic Development Authority. Altman issued a statement after her removal, calling it “the dirty underbelly of a machine that will subvert democracy in its ruthless goal to accumulate and maintain power.” But whom is Working Families…Read More
Is the NJEA’s Super PAC Playing Fast and Loose with the Rules in Camden?
Posted On11/01/2019 byThere’s a hotly contested school board race going on in Camden on. News accounts have described it as a contest between two slates: “Camden Votes” backed by the NJEA-affiliate Camden Education Association, and “Education for Everyone” backed by the Camden County Democratic Committee. SPCNJ doesn’t typically get opine on local politics, but we have been…Read More
NJ’s Taxes Are the Worst in the Country for Businesses – for the Fifth Straight Year!
Posted On10/24/2019 byThe Tax Foundation has come out with its annual review of business tax climates in the 50 states, and the news for NJ is not good. For the fifth straight year, NJ is dead last. Here are the major tax categories: Corporate: 49 Income: 50 Sales: 42 Property: 47 Neighbors NY and PA – with…Read More
New Direction NJ Back at It with $2 Million TV Ad Campaign
Posted On10/22/2019 byAccording to InsiderNJ, formerly “dark money” group New Direction New Jersey (NDNJ) is back at it with a $2 million TV ad campaign leading up to the Assembly elections in November. It’s nice to have a lot of property tax dollars to spend. How much of the $2 million comes from the NJEA? Is this…Read More
Assemblyman Hal Wirths Is Right About NJ Citizens’ Massive Tax Burden
Posted On10/17/2019 byIn today’s Star-Ledger, Assemblyman Wirths correctly highlights the inexorable rise of NJ’s property and other taxes and the insatiable appetite of the state’s special-interest-dominated status quo for more spending and more taxes. Wirth also wisely points out our state’s vulnerability to a recession. Wirths does NJ citizens a service by stating this clearly and succinctly….Read More
NJEA Ends Silence, Announces New Executive Director
Posted On10/10/2019 byAfter some prompting from the SPCNJ and others, the NJEA has announced that Ed Richardson is out and Steve Swetsky is in. The NJEA says Richardson is retiring, which is an ordinary reason for leaving a position, so it’s still a little odd that the NJEA was caught so flat-footed. Without the prompting, one wonders…Read More
NJEA Admits Richardson Is Leaving But Still Refuses To Say Why
Posted On10/09/2019 byThe strange saga of the NJEA’s ouster of executive director Ed Richardson continues. After SPCNJ dug up the fact of Richardson’s removal and noted the NJEA’s strange silence on the matter, NJ Spotlight at least followed up with NJEA Communications Director Steve Baker. All Baker would say was that the NJEA would provide more details…Read More
NJLeftBehind: Who Is in the Driver’s Seat: NJEA Leaders or Phil Murphy?
Posted On10/09/2019 byWe re-post NJLeftBehind’s excellent piece on the continued and remarkable similarity between Governor Murphy’s policy agenda and the NJEA’s policy agenda: Who Is in the Driver’s Seat: NJEA Leaders or Phil Murphy? Two weeks ago Governor Phil Murphy was the guest speaker at Rider University’s Rebovich Institute for Politics’ “Governing New Jersey” series.* As reported…Read More
Truth In Accounting: NJ Ranks Last in Fiscal Health – for the Fifth Straight Year
Posted On10/08/2019 byShowcased in a NJ101.5 report, Truth in Accounting (TIA) is one of many research outfits that analyze New Jersey’s dire fiscal condition. Mercatus Center and Pew Charitable Trusts do so as well and make similar findings. SPCNJ’s recent report “Beware the Downward Spiral” provides a comprehensive look at New Jersey’s fiscal and economic woes, and…Read More