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NJ Motorists about to Be Run Over by Big Gas Tax Hike?!
May 2,2014
AFP
Ridgewood NJ, New Jersey motorists could be run over by a huge gas tax hike this year. In a report from New Jersey Policy Perspective, the state’s biggest liberal “think tank”, called for a 39 cent gas tax hike!
NJ gas tax is the only low tax in New Jersey . The New Jersey Policy Perspective omitted to mention that New Jersey spends $1.2 MILLION to pave a mile of road–that’s 8.4 times the national average! The reason is simple: union favoritism! The Big Labor giveaways of prevailing wage statutes and project labor agreements inhibit competition and inflate the cost of every road construction project in the state. Without prevailing wage and PLAs, New Jersey would have plenty of money to address improving our roads and bridges.
Now that our Transportation Trust Fund has been bled dry because we overpay so much to build and maintain our infrastructure, what is Trenton’s solution? You guessed it. Just like every other problem we face, they want to tax hard-working New Jerseyans even more. 39 cents a gallon more!
The AFP is call on citizen-activists to make their presence felt in Trenton. “Road to Prosperity” event next Thursday, May 8: . If you and I don’t attend committee hearings and speak out, the special interests and Big Labor Union Bosses will run roughshod over us.
New Jersey cannot tax, spend and borrow our way out of the mess we are in. Quite the opposite: New Jersey needs to cut taxes and spending to grow our economy. Economic prosperity is the only real solution to address the fiscal hole our state government is now in. The only way to win is by freedom fighters like you taking on the forces of big government under the dome
