Last April, shortly after New Jersey governor Phil Murphy proposed a budget with hundreds of millions of dollars in new taxes, his Texas counterpart, Greg Abbott, published an op-ed in the Garden State’s largest newspaper, inviting businesses and residents to…

SCHOOL DISTRICTS SPEND MORE EACH YEAR FERRYING PUPILS THAN ON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. A NEW REPORT SUGGESTS BIG ECONOMIES ARE POSSIBLENew Jersey’s school districts spend well over $1 billion annually on student transportation. That’s more than they spend…

Hitting the town-hall circuit to pitch the latest big policy initiative is a time-honored tradition in New Jersey, and in recent years governors from both parties have crisscrossed the state to drum up support for everything from property-tax reform to…

Famed economists Dr. Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore authored the following op-ed which appeared in the New York Post: “This is the flip side [of] tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. The rich leave, and now what…

Opinion Editor Randy Bergmann of the Asbury Park Press (APP.com) writes on the Adding It All Up report issued by Garden State Initiative this week: A new report showing the myriad sources of government revenue in New Jersey and where and how the money is…

The cost of keeping the lights on for over 1,500 state, county and municipal government agencies figures in at nearly $117 billion, according to a report by the right-leaning think tank Garden State Initiative released Wednesday.All told, those three layers of state…

NJSpotlight.com’s John Reitmeyer took a deep-dive into Garden State Initiative’s new research report - Adding It All Up: An Impartial Look at New Jersey’s $117 Billion Government: After analyzing the budgets of over 1,000 government agencies, a right-leaning think tank…