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Educating New Jersey About Growing Government Spending and Ever Rising
Taxes in New Jersey
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Taxpayer
Minute 55 - Family Success Centers for Welfare Recipients |
Taxpayer Minute 55 Quick Facts:
--New Jersey has remained #1in the worst roads in the nation category.
--A recent Reason Foundation
report found that New Jersey has the worst roads in the nation.
--We have one of the smallest road systems, yet we spend more than
Texas or California.
--Road repair in New Jersey costs more than 10 times the
average of other states.
--That works out to $1.8 million per mile of state road. Yes, $1.8
million per mile!
--Why is it so high? For every pothole filled, the state must pay
sky high union wages becaues all state road work must be done with
project labor agreements.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer
Minute 54 - Family Success Centers for Welfare Recipients |
Taxpayer Minute 54 Quick Facts:
--NJ has set up 46 Family Success Centers in subsidized housing
developments.
--Here welfare recipients get concierge services at no charge.
--Government workers arrange appointments for things like physical
therapy, counseling, and even set up job interviews.
--The staff also recruit people to enroll for government benefits.
--We at AFP believe in helping people in need, but the government has
gone too far when welfare recipients get taxpayer funded services that
the taxpayers themselves can't afford.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
53 -School Construction Bonds Lawsuit
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Taxpayer Minute 53 Quick Facts:
--Steve Lonegan filed suit against Gov Corzine over his $3.9 billion
in school construction bonds to be sold without voter approval.
--But, the battle isn't just in the courts.
--Over 100 AFP activists joined Steve in protesting in front of
Moody's on Wall St to call attention to the bond rating services
giving the same high rating to these bonds that they gave Enron just
before they defaulted.
--State debt has gone from $11 billion to over $40 billion in eight
years and you have been denied your right to vote on almost all of
this debt.
--The time to stop this is now!
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
52 - Four Years to Buy Trash Cans?
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Taxpayer Minute 52 Quick Facts:
--How many New Jersey bureaucrats does it take to buy a bear-proof
trash can?
--When the NJ Department of Environmental Protection offered to buy
bear resistant trash cans for West Milford, here is what it took.
--4 years
Several government departments, including a Grants office, Public
Affairs office, and more.
--Many meetings to discuss the cans, several studies on what type of
can, years of writing and rewriting specifications, studies on who
should get the cans, and even studies on whether or not the cans would
even prevent bears.
--This is not a story, it is true.
--Taxpayers should not be taxed to pay bureaucrats in Trenton to
create plans on how to buy trash cans.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
51-Lawsuit launched to Stop $3.9 Billion in Schools Borrowing without
Voter Approval. |
Taxpayer Minute 51 Quick Facts:
--For years Governor Corzine has told us that NJ cannot operate with
its enormous debt burden.
--That was then and now is now.
--He wants to borrow almost $4 Billion dollars for urban school
construction and voters will have NO say.
--Trenton has to be stopped from mortgaging our future and plunging
the state deeper in dept.
--Steve Lonegan has filed a lawsuit to stop this borrowing scam.
----Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn
help
us win this lawsuit. |
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Taxpayer Minute
50-$3.9 Billion in Schools Borrowing without Voter Approval? We Think
Not! |
Taxpayer Minute 50 Quick Facts:
--Last January, Governor Corzine told us that NJ faced a debt crisis.
--He s aid we had to asset monetize (hock) our toll roads and borrow
$38 Billion without a vote of the people.
--What happened to the debt crisis?
--Did it evaporate like 'property tax relief?'
--While Corzine says he is cutting spending, he keeps pushing for new
spending to fund universal health care and build low income housing.
--Trenton gang is plundering NJ and treating rural and suburban towns
like conquered provinces paying tribute.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer
Minute 49-Politicians Nowhere to Be Found When Businesses Leave New
Jersey |
Taxpayer Minute 49 Quick Facts:
--Ever notice that when a new business opens, politicians are
everywhere taking credit?
--Where are these politicians when a business leaves New Jersey?
--The Palmer Plant shut down NJ, but left operation going in seven
other states.
--The Independent Tax Foundation rated NJ as the second worst overall
business tax state in the nation.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
48-Trenton Stealing Our Ability To Invest In Our Own Futures |
Taxpayer Minute 48 Quick Facts:
--Ronald Reagan said in 1964:
--“No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a
third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar
earned in this country are the tax collector’s share.”
--Today, an average New Jersey taxpayer loses 54% of their income to
the government tax collector.
--This staggering tax burden is why New Jersey residents are working
so hard, but just can’t keep up.
--Trenton is stealing our ability to invest in our own futures.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
47-Defending the American Dream Summit |
Taxpayer Minute 47 Quick Facts:
--Join us May 29 and 30 for AFP-NJ's Defending the American Dream
Summit
--This will be the most exciting taxpayer convention this decade
--Take tours of the State House
--Meet key state leaders
--Hear Great Speakers
--Learn how to fight back!
--and more
--Go to the
Defending the American Dream web site |
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Taxpayer
Minute 46-Small Towns |
Taxpayer Minute 46 Quick Facts:
--Some of New Jersey’s greatest treasures are found in our state’s
small towns and tight knit communities.
--Trenton’s central planners have set their sights on every one of our
neighborhoods.
--They are scheming to force 100,000 taxpayer subsidized, low income
housing units into every town in New Jersey. This will destroy
neighborhoods, lower property values, and raise property taxes even
more!
--One Mayor has said NO to the central planners and taken a stand.
Mayor Gerard P. Scharfenberger of Middletown has forged a Council
resolution to oppose this radical housing scheme.
--Unfortunately, Mayor Scharfenberger is the exception. Too many
politicians are afraid or unwilling to stand up to Trenton’s growing
power.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
45-Trust Fund Abuse |
Taxpayer Minute 45 Quick Facts:
--For years, the Unemployment Trust Fund has been raided to pay for
indigent health care
--Now it is broke and the Governor wants more than a quarter of a
billion dollars to prop it up
--This is just one more kick in the teeth to New Jersey's struggling
business owners faced with the highest taxes and most outrageous
business regulations in the country
--Other trust funds are broke or soon will be
--Next is the Disability Trust Fund with the passing of the disastrous
Paid Family Leave bill
--Then the Transportation Trust Fund
--AFP-NJ's fights the Trenton tax and spend crowd every day. Join us!
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
44-Corporate Welfare for Horse Racing |
Taxpayer Minute 44 Quick Facts:
--Governor Corzine says that New Jersey is so broke he has to cut
State aid to small towns
--“State aid” means the crumbs most small towns get from the state
income tax (Who can forget the disappearing rebates from the 9 percent
“Millionaire’s tax” and Corzine’s 7 percent Sales Tax?
--But while property taxes soared, Governor Corzine managed to spend
$80 million in corporate welfare for race tracks and horse owners.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
43-Universal Health Care |
Taxpayer Minute 43 Quick Facts:
--Trenton is considering a new socialist program to raise your taxes
--Sen. Joe Vitale's Universal Health Care scheme
--This will make taxpayers subsidize people who will not buy health
insurance
--And cause rationing of health care for all
--This is a great motivation for anyone looking for a handout to move
to New Jersey and just one more reason for productive taxpayers to
keep leaving by the thousands
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
42-Gas Tax Hikes and Toll Increases |
Taxpayer Minute 42 Quick Facts:
--In 1966, New Jersey had the 3rd highest property taxes in the
country, but NO sales or income taxes.
--Then Trenton told us a temporary 3% sales tax would cut property
taxes. In 1971, that temporary sales tax became a permanent 5% sales
tax! Now, at 7%, the sales tax is the highest in the nation and there
has been no property tax relief.
--In 1976, Trenton told us that a new 2.5% income tax would cut
property taxes. (Notice a pattern here?). That income tax has steadily
risen to the current 9% and property taxes are as high as ever.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
41-Gas Tax Hikes and Toll Increases |
Taxpayer Minute 41 Quick Facts:
--Two great things about New Jersey are small towns and low gas taxes
--Governor Corzine has declared war on both
--He wants an 18 cent tax increase to go with toll hikes
--New Jersey will go from having one of the lowest gas taxes to having
one of the highest
--Small towns are far more efficiently run than big cities, but
Governor Corzine wants to get rid of them
--AFP-NJ is fighting to keep the things that are good about New Jersey
so people will want to stay here
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
40-Trenton Social Planners |
Taxpayer Minute 40 Quick Facts:
--Trenton's social planners would plan everything you do if they could
and are working hard to get complete power to do so
--And they tax you to fund all their dictates
--Help AFP-NJ fight back
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
39-Paid Family Leave - Senator Adler |
Taxpayer Minute 39 Quick Facts:
--Paid Family Leave a very dangerous bill
--Will give every employee 6 weeks off at taxpayer expense for almost
any reason
--$130 million tax hike that will only grow and grow to support this
new government program
--Call Senator Adler and tell him to VOTE NO!
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
38-Stop Massive Borrowing Now |
Taxpayer Minute 38 Quick Facts:
--When Julius Caesar needed money to buy votes he just went and
plundered neighboring countries
--Trenton's politicians can't do that and PA and NY would object!
--But they can do something far worse - they are reaching out to steal
from the pockets of our children and grandchildren with their massive
borrowing schemes
--Do not let them mortgage our children's futures
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer
Minute 37-Don't Hock Our Roads 5 |
Taxpayer Minute 37 Quick Facts:
--The old image of Scandinavian countries is hardy Nordic peoples
--Now, someone with anxiety about being nice to customers can get
government disability in Sweden
--Over 20% of Swedes get some form of government assistance
--An economist documented how these government programs have made is
OK to live off the work of others
--If New Jersey passes Paid Family Leave, our state will be the place
to come for deadbeats seeking government disability payments
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
36-Don't Hock Our Roads 4 |
Taxpayer Minute 36 Quick Facts:
--Would you trade a 20 year loan at 3% for a 75 year loan at 7%?
--This is the largest state borrowing scheme in US history
--This is because Corzine and his big government allies will not cut
spending
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
35-Don't Hock Our Roads 3 |
Taxpayer Minute 35 Quick Facts:
--Governor Corzines Asset Monetization plan calls for endless
increases in tolls
--Corzine says the only alternative is higher taxes
--Really? What about CUTTING SPENDING?
--If Corzine can't cut spending by 10%, he isn't the financial wizard
he claims to be
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
34-Don't Hock Our Roads 2 |
Taxpayer Minute 34 Quick Facts:
--Borrowing money to pay interest on another loan is not very smart
--But that is what Governor Corzine is going to do with the biggest
borrowing scheme in US history
--He wants to borrow $38 Billion dollars this year to be paid for by
massive toll hike increases that won't go into effect until AFTER the
next governor's election
--But interest will be payable immediately
--This is Enron style fiscal irresponsibility
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
33-Don't Hock Our Roads |
Taxpayer Minute 33 Quick Facts:
--Governor Corzine wants to TRIPLE tolls to pay for more
government programs
--He wants to borrow $32 BILLION dollars secured ny massive toll
increases on the Garden State Parkway, New Jersey Turnpike, and
Atlantic City Expressway
--Speak out now, attend one of Corzine's public hearings and tell him
NO to hocking our roads.
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
32-Lame Duck Scheming |
Taxpayer Minute 32 Quick Facts:
--Warning, warning, New Jersey
legislators are in a lame duck session scheming to get bad bills
passed under the radar
--New payroll tax to fund paid family leave!
--New tax on garbage!
--New tax on event tickets!
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
31-School Funding Formula |
Taxpayer Minute 31 Quick Facts:
--Governor Corzine is rushing a costly school funding formula through
the lame duck legislature
--It is wrong to push through decisions that will cost billions more
dollars in income redistribution
--New Jersey's taxpayers can't afford this!
--The top ten school spending states spent more than double the bottom
ten states, yet the bottom ten states did 16 points better on the SAT
on average - money won't solve our education problems
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more about stopping the spending and taxing in
New Jersey |
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Taxpayer Minute
30-Paid Family Leave Van Drew |
Taxpayer Minute 30 Quick Facts:
--The Paid Family Leave Bill will raise taxes and hurt businesses in
New Jersey
--Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew says he is a conservative, pro-business
Democrat
--Then, why is he thinking about voting this week for Governor
Corzine's left-wing Paid Family Leave Bill that will give every
employee a free 10 week taxpayer funded vacation every year?
--Jeff Van Drew is a key vote!
--Call Jeff now at 609-465-0700 and tell him no more handouts and no
more taxes!
--Go
to AFP-NJ now and learn more |
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Taxpayer Minute 29-Paid
Family Leave Scalera |
Taxpayer Minute 29 Quick Facts:
--The Paid Family Leave Bill will raise taxes and hurt businesses in
New Jersey
--Assemblyman Fred Scalera says he cares about jobs and small business
--Then, why is he thinking about voting this week for Governor
Corzine's left-wing Paid Family Leave Bill that will give every
employee a free 10 week taxpayer funded vacation every year?
--Fred Scalera is a key vote!
--Call Fred now at 973-667-4431 and tell him no more handouts and no
more taxes!
--Go
to AFP-NJ and learn more |
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Taxpayer Minute 28-VOTE
NO ON QUESTION 2 Part 2 |
Taxpayer Minute 28 Quick Facts:
--Governor Corzine has promised to spend his own money to pass the
Embryonic Stem Cell Research bond ballot question
--Taxpaying voters have a right to fight back and put an end to the
big spending in Trenton!
--It is time to take back New Jersey from the big spenders destroying
our state
--Vote NO on the ballot questions no matter how much Governor Corzine
spends!
--Go
to AFP-NJ now to learn more and how to help defeat the ballot
questions! |
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Taxpayer Minute 27-VOTE
NO ON QUESTION 2 |
Taxpayer Minute 27 Quick Facts:
--A yes vote on Question 2 is a vote for higher taxes!
--Question 2 will force taxpayers to pay for risky embryonic stem cell
research that Governor Corzine's Wall Street buddies and other
investors won't touch
--Embryonic stem cell research (unlike other stem cell research) has
not produced a cure in over 35 years
--When sales tax revenues aren't enough to pay back these bonds,
Trenton politicians can create a new state-wide property tax to cover
it
--Plus, this bill ALSO allows the politicians to create a new
PERSONAL property tax!
--Go
to AFP-NJ now to learn more and how to help defeat the ballot
questions! |
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Taxpayer Minute 26-VOTE
NO ON QUESTION 3 |
Taxpayer Minute 26 Quick Facts:
--A yes vote on Question 3 is a vote for higher taxes, eminent domain,
and high density housing in your neighborhood
--There is more to Question 3 than $200 million in additional state
borrowing
--It is about state control of local zoning - one-family housing will
be replaced by high rise housing
--Only Governor Corzine and his Trenton bureaucrats want this
--And taxes will continue to go up
--Go
to AFP-NJ now to learn more and how to help defeat the ballot
questions! |
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Taxpayer Minute 25-VOTE
NO ON QUESTION 1 |
Taxpayer Minute 25 Quick Facts:
--A yes vote on Question 1 is a vote for an 8% sales tax
--This question allegedly dedicates one cent of the sales tax to
"so-called" property tax relief
--We've seen this scam before - a sales tax increase followed by
election year tax rebates that disappear the next year
--But you can bet on more tax increases and no property tax relief
--Go
to AFP-NJ now to learn more and how to help defeat the ballot
questions! |
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Taxpayer Minute 24-Funding_Embryonic Stem Cell Research |
Taxpayer Minute 24 Quick Facts:
--Wall Street will not invest in embryonic stem cell research, yet NJ
politicians want taxpayers to foot the bill
--Nov 6 ballot question will ask taxpayers to invest their tax dollars
in a technology that has produced no cures
--Yet adult stem cell research has produced cures!
--Why should taxpayers invest in something that professional investors
won't touch
--Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute 23-PERC |
Taxpayer Minute 23 Quick Facts:
--Local mayors and Councils are trying desperately to hold the line on
rising property taxes while the state is pushing spending higher and
higher
--Example: Corzine and the Public Employee Relations Commission (PERC)
trying to force taxpayers to pay for full health coverage for life for
public employees retiring as early as 47 years old!
--This will just push property taxes higher and higher
--Public officials afraid to speak out but AFP is not. Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute 22 |
Taxpayer Minute 22 Quick Facts:
--reckless politicians want to spend $120 million to add 12,000 seats
to Rutgers stadium
--$10,000 per seat
--Yet NJ is in a fiscal crisis with the fastest growing debt in the
country
--We are already paying for a new Giants stadium that Rutgers could
also use
--Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer
Minute 21A |
Taxpayer Minute 21A Quick Facts:
--When taxes get raised, lawmakers hope most people will think it won't
affect them
--Like McGreevey's 14.5% hotel/motel tax - money that topurists won't
spend with local merchants
--The government thinks it can spend your money better than you can,
which is why NJ has the highest taxes in the nation
--Americans for Prosperity thinks taxpayers can better spend their own
money
--Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer
Minute 21B |
Taxpayer Minute 21B Quick Facts:
--Corzine and the state Legislature raised the sales tax to 7% and
promised a 20% property tax cut
--Property taxes continue to go up and the state can't afford the
rebates
--This is Enron style economics as the states wants to borrow another
$2 billion at high interest to send out rebate checks just before an
election
----Learn what you can do to help -Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer
Minute 20 |
Taxpayer Minute 20 Quick Facts:
--Governor Corzine tells us the state is broke and he needs to sell
the state highways
--State debt is over $33 billion and that isn't enough for Corzine
--Corzine is pushing three ballot questions that will cost taxpayers
even more
--Learn what you can do to stop this -Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute 19 |
Taxpayer Minute 19 Quick Facts:
--NJ has highest per pupil spending in the US paid for by the highest
property taxes
--yet 1 out of 5 high school seniors cannot pass the high school
graduation test even after 3 tries
--NJ is now 24th in education, a disgrace
--Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute 18 |
Taxpayer Minute 18 Quick Facts:
--New Jersey has the highest property tax in the nation
--Also has the highest per pupil public school spending in the nation
due to high teacher salaries and great pension benefits
--$58 billion in unfunded retiree obligations!
--New Jersey student's aren't getting their money's worth!
--Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute 17 |
Taxpayer Minute 17 Quick Facts:
--Pension and retirement health insurance costs for public employees
keeps going up
--Unfunded IOU has been presented to the taxpayers of NJ - $58
billion!
--Highest unfunded retiree obligation of all 50 states
--a disaster for taxpayers
--Join
AFP now to be part of the solution |
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Taxpayer Minute 16 |
Taxpayer Minute 16 Quick Facts:
--Gov Corzine was grateful for the care he received after his accident
--So grateful, he arranged a $6.4 million grant for the hospital
--But it was not his money, but the taxpayer's money, our money!
--Just another Christmas Tree gift of our tax money to a politician's
pet project
--Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute 15 |
Taxpayer Minute 15 Quick Facts:
--AFP is leading grassroots citizens activist organization
--You can stand up to big government in Trenton
--Liberal politicians think you are stupid
--Become a citizen activist -
Join AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute 14 |
Taxpayer Minute 14 Quick Facts:
--3 years ago we defeated Gov McGreevey's 15 cent gas tax hike
--Now, Gov Corzine is saying we need a gas tax hike of 10 cents or
more
--This will be on top of toll hikes when Corzine sells the Turnpike
--Road funds must be spent on roads, not useless projects
--This must be stopped now. Please sign the
AFP No Gas Tax Hike petition
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Taxpayer Minute 13 |
Taxpayer Minute 13 Quick Facts:
--New proposed Paid Family Leave program
--Allows any government employee to take off 10 weeks a year for
virtually any reason and GET PAID
--Political payoff to government employee union bosses
--Taxpayers will pay for replacements or in loss of services
--Join
AFP and make help stop this outrage |
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Taxpayer
Minute 12 |
Taxpayer Minute 12 Quick Facts:
--For 200 years, New Jersey led the US in economic development
--New Jersey is now a second rate economy
--Highest taxes, loss of private property rights, expanded government
entitlement programs, and oppressive government government regulations
--We can't let this continue
--Join
AFP and make a difference |
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Taxpayer
Minute 11 |
Taxpayer Minute 11 Quick Facts:
--New Jersey has among the highest cost health insurance in the nation
--High cost due to free care for illegal immigrants, government
giveaways and aggressive trail lawyers
--Now, legislative socialists have introduced a bill to require all NJ
citizens to buy state mandated insurance
--Join
AFP and make a difference |
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Taxpayer
Minute 10 |
Taxpayer Minute 10 Quick Facts:
--New Jersey's pension system is $56 billion in debt
--That's $7500 for every man, woman, and child in NJ
--Legislators said they didn't know what they were voting for!
--Join
AFP and make a difference |
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Taxpayer
Minute 9 |
Taxpayer Minute 9 Quick Facts:
--New Jersey's tax and spend policies are out of hand
--NJ worst climate for small business
--Highest taxes
--Get
Keeping New Jersey Competitive booklet to learn how we can correct
NJ! |
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Taxpayer
Minute 8 |
Taxpayer Minute 8 Quick Facts:
--Owning a business is the American dream
--Trenton doesn't care
--$500 tax just to start
--NJ has most repressive regulations
--NJ has highest income, sales, and property taxes
--200,000 high income residents fled NJ in past 5 years
--Join AFP and defend the American Dream in NJ |
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Taxpayer Minute 7 |
Taxpayer Minute 7 Quick Facts:
--High taxes in NJ largely due to Trenton's mismanagement of school
funding
--Corruption rampant in Trenton's school bureaucracy
--Most money goes to worst schools that never improve
--$8.6 billion school construction scheme just one example
--Join AFP to fight back! |
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Taxpayer Minute 6 |
Taxpayer Minute 6 Quick Facts:
--Local control of schools is best for kids and more cost effective
--Governor Corzine wants central control of our schools from Trenton
--Corzine has created a SUPER Superintendent to add another
bureaucratic layer to the education system
--Join AFP to ensure parental control of our schools! |
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Taxpayer Minute
5 |
Taxpayer Minute 5 Quick Facts:
--Eminent domain will take your property in New Jersey
--Manny Emeril came to the US 30 years ago and created a business his
sons want to take over
--Manny is ashamed to tell his family in Portugal what is happening to
him in the US, in New Jersey
--Eminent domain is taking his business and giving the land to
politically connected developers
--Fight back, Join
AFP now! |
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Taxpayer Minute
4 |
Taxpayer Minute 4 Quick Facts:
--NJ has highest property tax
--100,000 high income earners have moved out of NJ
--loss of high tech jobs
--Cut spending is the answer!! |
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Taxpayer
Minute 3 |
Taxpayer Minute 3 Quick Facts:
--Low income housing coming to your neighborhood
--state will use eminent domain if they have to to force it on
municipalities
--your hard earned tax dollars will pay for it
--You can fight back! |
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Taxpayer Minute 2 |
Taxpayer Minute 2 Quick Facts:
--High taxes caused by high education costs
--more that 59% of funds go to less than 22% of students (in the
Abbott districts)
--state aid for education should be distributed evenly
--if a school can't deliver, parents should get a voucher |
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Taxpayer Minute 1 |
Taxpayer Minute 1 Quick Facts:
--Highest taxes in the nation
--Liberal big spending government
--You can fight back! |
The Taxpayer Minute is sponsored by Americans For Prosperity
Foundation - New
Jersey (AFPF-NJ) - a non-profit citizen education organization. AFP-NJ
conducts taxpayer seminars to educate citizens about New Jersey's
declining economy, loss of jobs and how high taxes are harming our
state. Our goal is mobilize citizens to achieve fiscal restraint and
economic freedom and growth.
To learn more about AFPF-NJ and where our seminars are being held go
to:
AFP-NJ Site
Taxpayer Grassroots Action Seminar Page
Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP Foundation) and Americans for
Prosperity (AFP) are nationwide organizations committed to education
and training citizens to promote economic freedom and opportunity.
For more information go to:
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