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Trenton NJ, Senator Michael Testa said Governor Phil Murphy could have prevented school aid cuts and resulting property tax increases with money that was earmarked for $500 checks and free health care for illegal aliens in the new state budget.
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Trenton NJ, Senator Declan O’Scanlon highlighted the delayed and failed tax relief in the FY 2023 State Budget that Governor Phil Murphy signed, including a payroll tax increase that takes effect tomorrow, ANCHOR rebates that won’t be delivered until 2023, and child tax credits that won’t help parents until 2024, and tax bracket creep that remains unaddressed.
Continue reading ANCHOR Property Tax Rebates Delayed Until 2023
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Morristown NJ, on June 30th, the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis issued its report on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by State for the 1st Quarter of 2021, which covers the months of January through March. Dr. Charles Steindel, former Chief Economist of the State of New Jersey, analyzed the report for the Garden State Initiative:
Continue reading New Jersey’s Real GDP fell at an Annual Rate of 2.2% in the First Quarter of 2022
Trenton NJ, With all the economic problems facing our state and our citizens, Governor Murphy and the Democratic legislature are instead shamefully laser-focused on ending the life of more babies and causing more misery and harm to women facing crisis pregnancies.
Continue reading New Jersey Becomes Abortion Sanctuary State
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Trenton NJ, on March 21st, 2020 NJ Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order 107 , denying New Jersey residents their constitutional rights . Governor Murphy justified his decision , “To mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and protect the capacity of New Jersey’s health care system for the state’s most vulnerable, Governor Phil Murphy today signed Executive Order No. 107, directing all residents to stay at home until further notice. The order provides for certain exceptions, such as obtaining essential goods or services, seeking medical attention, visiting family or close friends, reporting to work, or engaging in outdoor activities.”
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Trenton NJ, a bill that makes permanent new working hours for minors and greatly improves the process for teens to obtain working papers is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee today.
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Ridgewood NJ, supporters of Phil Murphy’s Energy Master Plan take note ,Germany’s experiment in Green Energy is a major fail. Out of necessity, Germany’s Socialist/Green coalition government has announced it will have to increase the burning of coal to reduce its dangerous dependence on Russian oil and natural gas. Underlining that dependence was Russia’s announcement that it was cutting gas supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline (Trump warned you) for “technical reasons.” In other words: a form of blackmail.
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Trenton NJ, Republican senators called for action on their plans to save New Jersey taxpayers from suffering state income tax increases next year due to inflation after the Treasury Department estimated the cost of “tax bracket creep” at $543 million in FY 2023.
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Ridgewood NJ, when famously asked by Tucker Carlson ,“By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order? How do you have the power to do that? Phil Murphy responded , “That’s above my pay grade, Tucker, so I wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when I did this.”
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Trenton NJ, New Jersey Treasurer Elizabeth Maher Muoio accused of intentionally misleading legislators on behalf of the Murphy administration in an attempt to hide the state’s rapidly increasing debt, the Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee repeated their calls for the Treasurer to be held accountable by the committee in a letter today (click here for PDF) to Senate Budget Chairman Paul Sarlo (D-36).
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Branchburg Township NJ, a Staten Island Coach has been charged with third-degree aggravated assault and fourth-degree assault . The assault occurred during a 13-and-under U.S. Amateur Baseball League tournament game on June 4 in Branchburg and left the 72-year-old baseball umpire with a broken jaw that required extensive dental surgery.
Continue reading Staten Island Coach Charged Violent Assault on Umpire During 13-and-under U.S. Amateur Baseball League Tournament
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Trenton NJ, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) today announced the first probable case of monkeypox in the state. A PCR test conducted by the Department’s Public Health and Environmental Laboratories confirmed the presence of orthopoxvirus in a North Jersey individual on June 18. A confirmatory test for the monkeypox virus – one of the viruses associated with the orthopoxvirus genus – will be done by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Department of Health believes that the risk to New Jerseyans remains low.
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Trenton NJ, Senator Michael Testa said the ANCHOR plan announced by Governor Phil Murphy and Democrat leaders is underwhelming compared to the Give It Back rebates proposed by Senate Republicans.
Trenton NJ, Senator Testa Again Calls for Treasurer Muoio to Appear Before Senate Budget Committee to Address Misrepresentations & Illegal Appropriations. Says Treasurer Must Address Inaccurate Comments on State Debt, Unauthorized Transfers of Pandemic Relief Funds for $2k checks to Illegal Immigrants.
