New Jersey and other high-tax states have been struggling to find ways to let residents exceed the new federal cap on deducting state and local taxes. Like New York, the Garden State passed a law supposedly letting people make donations…

The battle for Congress is drawing most media attention this year, but an underreported story is the campaign by public unions to turn multiple states sharply to the left. A bellwether is Arizona, where a pair of ballot initiatives would…

In the past few weeks, Gov. Phil Murphy and the state Legislature enacted major tax increases and made a record-breaking payment to New Jersey's deeply underfunded pension funds. Last week, Senate President Steve Sweeney, D-Gloucester, proposed structural reforms and spending…

The report the Legislature’s Economic and Fiscal Policy Review Committee released on New Jersey identified a number of areas the state needs to address, offering suggestions on some.It even went as far as to say, “The fiscal future of New Jersey…

For taxpayers, there is much to like in the report released Thursday by a task force charged with developing recommendations aimed at heading off a state and local government fiscal disaster and at stanching the flow of fed-up taxpayers to…

Garden State Initiative President Regina M. Egea issued the following statement in commentary on the release of the report by Senate President Steve Sweeney's New Jersey Economic & Fiscal Policy Working Group:With a budget just enacted by these same legislators…

Now that the dust has settled from the state budget, it is time to look at next year. In the letter accompanying his proposed fiscal 2019 budget, Gov. Phil Murphy assured the public "we are beginning our climb out of…