PRESS RELEASE: NJGOP Chairman Calls On Legislature To Unite To Kill Obamacare Business Tax

NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt calls on Democrats to join Republicans in opposing Governor Phil Murphy’s new tax on large businesses of $150 per employee enrolled in Medicaid. The Chairman’s press release follows:

Trenton, NJ - Governor Phil Murphy has proposed a new tax on large businesses of $150 per employee enrolled in Medicaid. The new tax would apply to every New Jersey business with 50 or more employees.

NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt is calling on Democrats in the New Jersey legislature to join Republicans in opposing this new tax.

"We need to incentivize businesses to grow and invest here, not chase them away with the second highest corporate tax in the country and now the reintroduction to New Jersey of some of the worst of Obamacare’s fines and penalty policies," said Chairman Steinhardt. "Every added assessment, even $150 per employee, is another signal to New Jersey’s business owners that they aren’t welcome here. We call on leaders from both sides to find honest solutions to New Jersey’s fiscal problems. Phil Murphy's tax foolishness is no answer."

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Want To Be A School Board Member? Gloucester Township Might Want You.

Thanks to the “sudden resignation” of Gloucester Township School Board member Brian Reagan after only a month into his term the “Gloucester Township Board of Education has a vacancy on the Board of Education to be filled by a resident of Gloucester Township. The appointed term shall be from date of appointment through December 31, 2019.”

Patch.com reported on the resignation. Here’s part of what they had to say:

The Gloucester Township Board of Education is looking to fill a vacancy after a newly-elected board member resigned one month into his term. Brian Reagan has resigned from the K-8 school district's board of education, the board announced at its meeting Monday night. No reason was given for his sudden resignation. He was not in attendance.

Reagan has been the subject of some controversy shortly after the election. The Bob and Steve Show reports that he lied in his online biography he posted while running for school board and that he allegedly wore black face in a social media post. 

Reagan was elected along with Carolyn Grace and Anthony Marks in the November elections. He earned 4,523 votes in the 15-person race, making him the second highest vote-getter.

According to the Gloucester Township BOE website:

Those eligible residents of Gloucester Township having an interest in filling the position shall send a letter providing information about themselves and summarizing their interest in the position.  All letters must be received by 4:00 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

Letters should be sent to:

Mrs. Jean Grubb, School Business Administrator/Board Secretary, c/o Gloucester Township Board of Education, 17 Erial Rd. Blackwood, NJ 08012.

Legal requirements:

• ·          is a citizen of the United States of America

• ·          must be at least 18 (eighteen) years of age

• ·          must be able to read and write

• ·          be a resident of Gloucester Township for at least one year preceding the date of the appointment

• ·          is not disqualified as a voter pursuant to N.J.S.A. 19:4-1

• ·          is a registered voter in the district

• ·          is not disqualified from membership for the conviction of crimes pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:12-1*​​​​​​​

*Within 30 days of appointment to the board, a member must undergo a criminal history background check through the New Jersey Department of Education.

If you should decide to submit your name for consideration please be sure to meet the criteria. We really don’t feel like having to investigate where someone lives again.

Hopefully, this brings at least some of the controversy within Gloucester Township to an end.

Murphy’s Second Budget Address: At Least “More Than 80,000 STD Tests Were Provided Free-of-Charge.”

Phil Murphy

Much like his State of the State address earlier this year, Governor Phil Murphy’s Budget Address today sounded more like a campaign speech.

He stuck with his familiar BS line, “Stronger and fairer,” saying it four times in today’s speech.

In a nutshell, the Governor wants to spend more money. He claimed he wants to spend more money by taxing millionaires. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that isn’t going to work, so let’s see who else he tries to tax.

Then there was all of the Governor’s talk of a budget surplus:

We are building a stronger fiscal house for New Jersey. We are replacing gimmicks with stability. 

For example, the projected surplus of the budget I signed last year was $765 million – a vast improvement over prior budgets. But, through careful management and keeping an eye on every dollar, we have grown our surplus by one-third over the year and are now set to close Fiscal 2019 with a surplus of over $1 billion.

This budget will grow our surplus even more in Fiscal 2020, to nearly $1.2 billion.

I ask you to find the last time we had consecutive years of billion-dollar-plus surpluses.

Here’s the thing. Surpluses are nice, but surpluses also mean that the government took more of your money than it needed. I’m thinking if the Governor really wanted to make New Jersey “stronger and fairer” he might use some of that surplus for a little tax relief for someone, maybe seniors.

But, no matter what, I guess Murphy can be proud that, “More than 80,000 STD tests were provided free-of-charge.” He must be proud of it, he worked it into the speech.