tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70872689882674480602010-04-09T10:16:52.509-04:00At NJ Tax Revolution, we fight excessive taxation in the New Jersey and Federal governments by providing information and opportunities to better understand the legislative process. In addition, we want to help people know when the state or federal governments are poised to establish more taxes so that we can communicate our opposition to our elected politicians.Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.comBlogger591125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-81204413430266510752010-04-09T10:08:00.003-04:002010-04-09T10:16:52.518-04:00

WCBSTV is reporting today that the Bergen County Record obtained a memo that including a prayer for the death of Governor Chris Christie:New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't laughing about a teachers union's memo that hints of his death. The memo is the latest salvo in a war of words between Christie and the union over wage and benefits concessions. The Record of Bergen County obtained the Bergen

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-2845443221984465462010-04-06T21:16:00.003-04:002010-04-06T21:30:44.006-04:00

Given that I have already posted the pics from the American Solutions event and protest in St Petersburg, most of you are aware of my vacation protest encounter. While walking around, I spoke to some folks at the event in support of the American Solutions event and conservative thinking in general. One of the folks was Connie Denault. He is running for State Representative for district 52. I

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-5198025368564630802010-04-06T11:43:00.004-04:002010-04-06T12:19:23.556-04:00

So I am on vacation with my family at Phillies Spring training. We return back to the hotel and there is extra security and we have to be passed through to the front entrance. Since I didn't go anywhere without my camera last week, I had to take see what was going on. As it turns out, Newt Gingrich was in the hotel as a part of an American Solutions presentation. And the protestors were

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-78460411585451655332010-03-22T16:43:00.003-04:002010-03-22T17:12:00.348-04:00

It was a short time ago that this Rutgers-Eagleton poll was released. Two interesting statistics that came out of the poll were that while 88 percent of respondents felt that change was needed, 70 percent thought that the congress needed to start over(ie that this legislation would not solve the problem). This poll was conducted right here in New Jersey and should have been instructive to our

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-48418546804427628602010-03-22T13:34:00.006-04:002010-03-22T13:50:36.735-04:00

Got an email from Barack Obama today. It says, in part (boldface in the original): We have all been forced to ask if our politics had simply become too polarized and too short-sighted to meet the pressing challenges of our time. This struggle became a test of whether the American people could still rally together when the cause was right -- and actually create the change we believe in.Yeah.

Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-26004872881652218132010-03-22T13:12:00.003-04:002010-03-23T16:19:52.169-04:00

You can go to know him on facebook here.UPDATE: I corrected my previous misspelling of Dr Benishek's name. Sorry Doc!

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-827426370633892232010-03-22T10:36:00.006-04:002010-03-22T11:13:27.874-04:00

I was struck by this graphic from the Wall Street Journal. The raw partisanship of it expresses so much.No, I'm not surprised. Obama has been telling us that this is his modus operandi all along.Of course, one could misinterpret Obama's candidacy announcement, and his talk of "common purpose". In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long

Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-69863021154424426682010-03-22T07:22:00.005-04:002010-03-22T07:41:54.796-04:00

Hi, Bart. I thought you might want to see this.I received an email from the Planned Parenthood mailing list this morning, and it contained this paragraph:We were able to keep the Stupak abortion ban out of the final legislation, and President Obama did not include the Stupak language in his Executive Order. Unfortunately, the bill does include the Nelson amendment, which will impose new and

Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-59721501345343518312010-03-19T11:46:00.002-04:002010-03-19T12:14:33.200-04:00

While reviewing the Governors Budget in Brief summary today, I ran across the following chart. What it depicts is New Jersey budget spending since 2002. This diagram is more scary that I already thought. If you recall, we compared 10 years of budget in brief last year while reviewing Jon Corzine's budget. And we showed how he was claiming to be reducing the budget while at the same time

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-559048273725031352010-03-16T08:56:00.002-04:002010-03-16T09:03:26.242-04:00

Philly.com is reporting today that the senate has submitted a bill to being a study of the use of state vehicles:The New Jersey Senate's state government committee yesterday advanced a measure to study how to reduce the roughly 7,000 vehicles used for state business.During the next five fiscal years, supporters say, the state could save an estimated $28 million. That would be offset by money the

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-825759252095971372010-03-12T15:43:00.003-05:002010-03-12T15:57:57.567-05:00

The Asbury Park Press ran this story the other day that you may have missed but I guarantee you will find interesting. New Jersey Transit's payroll rose more than $154 million from 2006 to 2009, when the agency paid a total of $804 million in salaries and wages.The payroll increase was up 24 percent between those years, about three times the rate of inflation. The consumer price index for New

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-31366190401007817512010-03-09T17:00:00.000-05:002010-03-09T17:00:01.720-05:00

The Chair of the NJ State Assembly Judiciary committee Linda Greenstein has submitted legislation to establish a blue ribbon panel to study....prison inmates. You can review the proposal here. Does anyone wonder why the average citizen of New Jersey has absolutely no respect for our legislators or their ability to correct any of the state's myriad of issues? For example, I wonder where this

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-11688555024811424412010-03-08T16:41:00.003-05:002010-03-08T17:14:27.307-05:00

There were two significant fiscal austerity changes proposed by the current administration that are sure to get NJ residents blood boiling (including mine). The first was the announcement of NJ Transit's fare hike proposal(from this link at NJTransit.com):March 5, 2010NJT-10-020NEWARK, NJ — Citing a looming $300 million budget deficit for the coming fiscal year, NJ TRANSIT today released a

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-49791251768703949512010-02-25T21:43:00.004-05:002010-02-26T23:51:58.322-05:00

Businessweek reports on our Governor making a seriously hard choice politically:New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proposed cutting benefits to the state’s more than 400,000 out- of-work residents to blunt a rise in business taxes that may be triggered by a shrinking unemployment trust fund.Christie, 47, seeks to reduce the maximum weekly payment by $50 as joblessness stands at a 33-year high of

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-56322149935404557452010-02-22T16:25:00.005-05:002010-02-22T17:43:19.906-05:00

Here are my reactions to the Assembly Democrats' commentary regarding Governor Christie's budget. When I've commented inline, my comments are in italics.Assembly Budget Chairman Lou Greenwald (D-Camden):“I thank the acting treasurer for testifying and answering our questions. I had hoped that this would be the start of a renewed bipartisan effort to find alternatives to Gov. Christie’s budget

Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-86214430502973041312010-02-21T22:50:00.005-05:002010-02-21T22:59:11.767-05:00

I'm reading Malcolm X: The End of White World Supremacy, four speeches edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Goodman, a.k.a. Imam Benjamin Karim. (As he explains in his introduction, he was initially "Benjamin 2X" when he joined the Nation of Islam. The introduction is worth as much as the speeches.)There are lots of things that strike me when I read about Malcolm X. I am white, so to some

Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-23165805970335758102010-02-20T12:40:00.001-05:002010-02-20T13:03:11.952-05:00

Yesterday it was reported that Frank Lautenberg the second oldest U.S. Senator has stomach cancer. From a personal standpoint, I wish the Senator well and we should all keep him and his family in our prayers.That being said, the Senator should step down. As we posted here many times in the past our Senator has not represented the taxpayer of this state. When Lautenberg entered the Senate the

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-25179533156419505022010-02-14T10:45:00.003-05:002010-02-14T10:59:12.473-05:00

It was very interesting this week to see the reaction of Governor Chris Christie's executive actions to get the state's fiscal situation under control. In case you missed it and only read the newspapers, here is the action the Governor took this week (from the Office of the Governor, NJ):Withholding $475 million in local school aid for the balance of the fiscal year, with the amount of individual

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-71065225540731745992010-02-09T17:30:00.000-05:002010-02-09T17:30:00.644-05:00

Fox News is reporting that congressional Democrats have approaved the purchase of 50 million dollars worth of parkland....in St Croix. Two weeks ago, on a near party line vote, a huge Democratic majority in the House agreed to spend $50 million to buy the former cotton plantation on the island of St. Croix."This is a beautiful and important natural and cultural resource that is in danger of being

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-20878658815063350642010-02-09T11:08:00.005-05:002010-02-09T11:13:56.142-05:00

Yep, that's pretty much it.I'm not sure whether linking to this image is stealing bandwidth or just giving credit where it's due. Cagle.com doesn't seem to give a unique URL that will allow me just to link to the image.Click the image to be taken to Rob Tornoe's section of cagle.com.

Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-21731894251692461722010-02-02T08:03:00.002-05:002010-02-02T08:06:26.899-05:00

Just refer to this (From this in National Post):Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is to have heart surgery in the United States later this week, a press conference this morning is expected to confirm.Media reports last night suggested the popular 59-year-old Premier has opted not to remain in his home province or country for the scheduled surgery, opting instead for treatment at a

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-48989456356876194902010-02-01T19:26:00.002-05:002010-02-01T19:36:20.860-05:00

Following his theme of avoiding even the consideration of a spending decrease, Barack Obama has proposed a new budget short on spending cuts but long on taxes and debt. From the Heritage Foundation:Over the 10 years in which both budgets overlap (FY 2010-2019), this year's budget would spend an additional $1.7 trillion and run up an additional $2 trillion in budget deficits (see Table 1).[1] In

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-26863750434166450132010-01-27T21:07:00.031-05:002010-01-27T22:21:18.785-05:00

I wasn't sure I was going to do this, but I heard the ABC commentators claim that Nancy Pelosi was wearing purple because (paraphrasing) "it's not blue, it's not red, it's right in the center. I don't think that's an accident. I think it's symbolic." I had to laugh. Nancy Pelosi is right in the center, of course -- of the Politburo.9:14 It's interesting that he can claim that "these are the

Jake Freivaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01523638337057738776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-33092421848929037952010-01-27T08:55:00.004-05:002010-01-27T09:04:18.432-05:00

Philly.com reports that community service requirements may be coming to a school near you:Community service may have inched closer to becoming a graduation requirement for New Jersey high school students under a bill signed into law in the final days of the Corzine administration.The legislation calls for a four-year study to start this fall at 15 high schools, including five in the southern

Dennisnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087268988267448060.post-32879130030443790012010-01-23T23:39:00.004-05:002010-01-24T10:51:11.166-05:00

Instapundit.com and Hot Air broke this story about an alleged citizen concerned over Barack Obama's issues after the Massachusetts election (and after the NJ and VA elections as well). From Hot Air:Someone appears to be doing a little Astroturfing for Obama.In recent days, a letter defending Obama has appeared in dozens of newspapers throughout the country — all signed by an “Ellie Light.” In the

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