SPCNJ applauds Rutgers for holding a conference that focused on the outmigration of young people out of NJ – a net loss of over 200,000 young people over the past decade.  This is the future of NJ walking out the door. The Murphy administration has taken steps to mitigate the cost of college but it has done…Read More

RealClearPolitics published a piece that presents a possible salvation for bankrupt Illinois – and possibly New Jersey as well.  Author Richard Porter decries Illinois’ massive pension debts, high taxes, declining home values and the outmigration of its citizens, and suggests that it “re-boot” as a new state that could remedy these depressing realities – essentially…Read More

The 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

Candidates 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 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

Thanks 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

The 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

In 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