Wall St. Journal: NJ and Other Blue States Are Losing People and Wealth
Posted OnJanuary 8, 2020 byThe Wall Street Journal had an excellent editorial today on the out-migration of people and their taxable incomes from high-tax Blue States to low-tax, mostly Red States. The Journal piece echoes the findings of SPCNJ’s recent report “Beware the Downward Spiral: The Economic Consequences of New Jersey’s Special-Interest-Dominated Status Quo.” Taken from Census and IRS…Read More
SPCNJ’s Report Is All Facts, Mr. Baker. All Sourced and Footnoted.
Posted OnJanuary 6, 2020 bySPCNJ published a in-depth report today that reveals the NJEA’s vast, inter-connected network of allies. As expected, NJEA spokesperson Steve Baker casually dismissed SPCNJ’s work as “anti-union propaganda.” We at SPCNJ defy Mr. Baker to identify one piece of information in the report that isn’t a fact. He won’t be able to because the report…Read More
Read NJ Left Behind’s Excellent Article on Extravagant Health Benefits and NJEA Resistance to Reform
Posted OnJanuary 2, 2020 byNJEA Execs Demand Continuation of $700/Hour Acupuncture Sessions — On Your Dime. LAURA WATERS DECEMBER 20, 2019 Say NO to pension and benefit attacks! “Legislation recently introduced by Senate President Steve Sweeney threatens the pensions and health benefits of NJEA members and other public employees. Instead of finding ways for the state to meet its…Read More
Excellent Star-Ledger Op-Ed by Garden State Initiative on NJ Outmigration
Posted OnDecember 13, 2019 byCandidates beware: Property taxes are pushing Dems, Republicans and even independents to leave New Jersey By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist By Regina M. Egea It was well reported during 2017’s gubernatorial campaign that then-candidate Phil Murphy recounted a conversation with California’s then-Gov. Jerry Brown in which he said he wanted to make New Jersey the “California…Read More
NJ Left Behind Rightly Asks: Whose Interests Is ELC Representing?
Posted OnDecember 12, 2019 byNJ Left Behind is spot-on when it comes to calling out the Education Law Center’s most recent hypocrisy. ELC famously proclaims that it’s looking out for disadvantaged kids, but NJ Left Behind puts the lie to that. Here are some FACTS about the ELC (which will be further detailed in an upcoming report by SPCNJ):…Read More
Sue Altman Is Suing for EDA Records: Who Is Paying the Lawyers?
Posted OnDecember 12, 2019 byInsiderNJ reports that Sue Altman, the state director of Working Families Alliance who was famously removed from a recent state senate hearing, is suing the state for records of the Economic Development Agency. Remember that Altman claims that Working Families receives about $75,000 per year from public sector unions, although we apparently have to take…Read More
A “Fact-Lite” Statement from Working Families
Posted OnDecember 6, 2019 byVia InsiderNJ, Working Families spokesman Rob Duffey issued a statement yesterday challenging Senate President Sweeney’s characterization of Working Families state director Sue Altman as a “paid protester.” Calling it a “Trumpian epithet,” Duffey claimed that Working Families represented “the cries of non-partisan advocates and reformers” and accused Sweeney of “placing special interests over the public…Read More
Wake Up New Jersey: Gov. Murphy Wants To Raise Your Taxes, and Not Just on Millionaires
Posted OnDecember 5, 2019 byNJ Spotlight wrote a revealing article on Governor Murphy’s tax-hike plans. If it were up to Murphy – that is, if senate president Sweeney weren’t resisting Murphy – the state sales tax would rise from 6.625% to 7%. It is true that some items like groceries and clothing are exempted, but make no mistake about…Read More
What the Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran Didn’t Ask Working Families’ Sue Altman
Posted OnDecember 4, 2019 byThe Star-Ledger’s Tom Moran interviewed Sue Altman, state director of Working Families Alliance, who was famously removed from a state senate hearing on the corporate incentives program. In the interview, Altman claims that Working Families receives about $75,000 from public sector unions. We are left to take her word for it because Working Families is…Read More
Due to High Taxes and Costs, Poll Shows 44% of NJ Residents Want to Leave
Posted OnDecember 2, 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