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How N.J.'s largest corporations dodge paying U.S. taxes
Opinion
Some corporations are simply not good citizens. Not only do they engage in aggressive tax-avoidance schemes — lobbying and infusing political campaigns with cash to curry favor — they work hard and spend big to create them, as well. As a result, the costs of the nation's infrastructure, technology, research facilities, higher education, homeland security and defense fall to others — namely the rest of us — while the corporations continue to benefit from what they do not help to support.
Stile: State Supreme Court announcement comes wrapped in a white flag
It took Governor Christie a little more than a minute Monday to go on the public relations offensive over his latest nomination to the Supreme Court.
“I want to talk to the people of this state about what this signifies,” Christie said as he introduced Walter F. Timpone, 65, a veteran Democratic Party lawyer and political insider, at a State House news conference. “We’re getting our jobs done.”
Singleton, Caputo, Jasey, Lagana & Quijano Bill to Revise Requirements for Disclosure of Security Breaches Clears Assembly
Legislation Assembly Democrats Troy Singleton, Ralph Caputo, Mila Jasey, Joe Lagana and Annette Quijano sponsored to increase transparency when the security of consumers' personal information is compromised online gained Assembly approval on Thursday.
"The Internet has facilitated commerce and increased our access to services and information, but the unfortunate downside is that even a single breach of security online can open the door to identity theft," said Singleton (D-Burlington). "Consumers have a right to know whenever their personal information is at risk so that they can immediately take the appropriate action."
Take Me Out to the...
One of the many reasons that I love spring is due to the return of baseball. Some of my fondest memories growing up center around the game, and spending time with my Dad talking, watching and most years lamenting the woes of our favorite team each and every spring. That rite of the season is something I truly miss.
And frankly, is there anything more American than baseball, which, to slightly mimic a famous comedy routine, has been “very, very good to us”?
Ranks of N.J. wealthy growing, not shrinking, budget officials say
The ranks of New Jersey wealthy taxpayers are growing, not shrinking, according to the nonpartisan Office of Legislative Services, which was pulled into the fight over the estate tax Wednesday.
Income statistics in OLS' budget analysis contradict some claims that New Jersey is losing its wealthiest residents (despite actually losing its wealthiest resident).
State Treasurer Calls Increase in Taxes Inevitable without Benefits Reforms
Spending on public-employee benefits may not be the biggest single item in the state budget, but it’s definitely one of the most controversial.
The growing amount of money the state plans to dedicate to healthcare and pension benefits for state workers during the next fiscal year was hotly debated throughout a daylong Assembly Budget Committee hearing held in Trenton yesterday.
Singleton & Conaway Bill to Provide Property Tax Relief to Municipalities Advanced by Assembly Panel
Bill Would Restore, Over Five Years, Funding Cut from Energy Tax Receipts Program
(TRENTON) - Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Troy Singleton and Herb Conaway, Jr., M.D. to provide significant property tax relief to taxpayers and municipalities by restoring funding that had been cut from the state's Energy Tax Receipts program was advanced by an Assembly panel on Monday.
Employers like Obamacare just fine, they say
Editorial
During the launch of the Affordable Care Act, one of the darkest prophecies – a few rungs below that death-panel-for-Grandma thing – was that employers would scrap their health plans and send employees off to buy their own insurance.
Assembly panel advances bill to fund lobbying for NJ military bases
TRENTON — Legislation to appropriate taxpayer money each year for the defense of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and the state's other military installations was advanced Monday by the Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.
Is New Jersey’s Estate Tax Prompting Retiring Residents to Seek Greener Pastures?
But some suggest raising current threshold of $675,000 without totally eliminating much-debated tax and revenue it generates.
After trying for years with no luck, Republicans and business-lobbying groups this year have successfully seized on New Jersey’s standing as one of only 15 states in the country to still levy an estate tax to generate momentum for repeal.