Taxes

Christopher Venis, Republican candidate for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, announced today that he signed the earmark reform pledge sponsored by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW).  

New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation; its top income tax rate is the fourth highest in the nation; and we have one of the highest sales taxes. There is no question. New Jersey citizens are among the highest taxed in the country.

The question is why,

Christopher Venis, Republican candidate for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, announced today that he signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).

New Jersey has one of the most poorly-run state governments in the nation and Governor Jon Corzine has only made it worse. In just two years, he has raised the sales tax after a government shutdown, pushed a sham so-called property tax relief that amounts to larger rebate checks (that are unlikely to continue beyond a couple of years), enacted a dubious new school-funding formula, and now is pushing the largest debt issue in U.S. history, funded by a massive 800 percent hike in New Jersey’s tolls.

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LONEGAN: NJPP’S “BUDGET PLAN”: HIGHER TAXES, NO SPENDING CUTS

BOGOTA, NJ -- Steve Lonegan, Executive Director of Americans for Prosperity’s New Jersey chapter, today took aim at a proposal by a liberal group for proposing new and higher taxes and fees on motorists to fund even more government growth in New Jersey.

This year’s toughest political battle in New Jersey may be the biggest gimmick in Wall Streets history. Governor Corzine’s Asset Monetization proposal is said to reach as high as forty billion dollars and may be the largest borrowing plan in the world. It is a gimmick that will leave a legacy of massive government growth and several life times of financial destruction resulting from poor judgment.

Click here to listen to Steve Lonegan's Response to Governor Corzine's State of the State address. Lonegan is Americans for Prosperity - New Jersey's Executive Director.

BOGOTA – Bogota Mayor and Americans for Prosperity New Jersey state director Steve Lonegan will be speaking to the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers (AFT) at their annual conference this weekend. Lonegan will be speaking before the AFT 2007 Friend of the Taxpayer Awards Luncheon on “The fight for taxpayers’ rights.”

Mayor Lonegan’s address will focus on taxpayers’ defeat of two questions on this year’s New Jersey ballot, including the first defeat for taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research anywhere in the nation.

Voters sent a loud, clear, and stunning message to the complacent political class in Trenton this week—enough business as usual, taxing, borrowing, and spending recklessly. They also dispelled the notion that New Jersey conservatism is dead and progressivism inexorably on the march. Voters have seen Trenton’s idea of progress, and they’re fed up with it. When ballot questions go down for the first time in 17 years, it should serve as a wake up call—but will it? Will the legislature follow the will of the voters or come up with even more clever ways to thwart it?

Beck for Senate campaign spokesman Tom Fitzsimmons today released the following statement:

“In the spirit of bipartisanship, we would like to agree with the Karcher campaign that there are many questions which need to be answered before the end of this campaign.