Taxes

Trenton – Americans for Prosperity, New Jersey's largest and fastest growing taxpayer advocacy organization, filed an Open Public Records Act request seeking detailed information to support claims made by the office of Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts, Jr., about how a program to use taxpayers’ money to fund political campaigns was created.

Highlands plan includes nothing to compensate landowners who will see property values plummet. It's unfair that local landowners are being asked to bear a burden that should be carried by the entire state.

“Capitalism is responsible for the current food crisis and starvation around the world,” the voice on the radio said. “Attend our Introduction to Marxism conference this Friday and learn about the merits of Marxism.” Driving up the New Jersey Turnpike, I was shocked to hear this commercial on a popular radio station, though I shouldn’t be. The Left is on the march and more emboldened than ever. So, like any good capitalist wanting to learn what the radical left is up to, I registered.

The 2009 New Jersey State Budget  is not the stunning tribute to sound fiscal policy The Trenton insiders  would have you believe, but just a shallow campaign scam that reeks of political showmanship, while failing to address the state’s dire financial woes.

Last fall, the state conducted its second “Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project” which included state Senate and Assembly races in legislative districts 14, 24, and 37. The first pilot project took place in 2005 and included assembly races in two legislative districts –the 6th and 13th. This month, the legislature will consider a bill expanding this taxpayer subsidized political campaign scam far beyond its current level, which cost taxpayers over $4 Million in 2007 -- including $625,000 for one candidate alone.

Marks Calls for Stronger Laws to Curb Illegal Immigration

Trenton’s legislating machine is running in over-drive. The radicals who are running the engine of big government have opened the throttle of central planning and are bent on ramming through their agenda, regardless of disturbing economic indicators, skyrocketing taxes and the evacuation of job producing taxpayers.

The Swedish-style Paid Family Leave scheme is being railroaded through the legislature, despite its destructive effect on the state’s small business community.

 Venis Supports Employee Free Choice Act

American workers deserve better wages, benefits and working conditions

Mayor Martin Marks, Republican candidate for Congress in the Seventh District, announced that he signed the earmark reform pledge that goes above and beyond any current earmark disclosure rules to boost transparency and demand higher standards from members of Congress for future earmark requests.

It is clear that the big-government radicals running Trenton today will stop at nothing to advance their vision of an even bigger nanny state no matter what or who is destroyed on the way to achieving the “Common Good.” So much so that they will pass drastically flawed and dangerous bills that will destroy New Jersey’s competitive business climate in favor of emotion based, job destroying politics. This time, however, they got caught on a procedural technicality.