Issues
January 02, 2012 JLabor, Education & Pensions
For Immediate Release January 2, 2011
Americans for Prosperity: PolitiFact Delivers Faulty, Misleading Toll Hike Rating
Pro-Taxpayer Group Calls for Retraction of False Rating
BOGOTA, NJ Americans for Prosperity Communications Director Mike Proto has issued the following statement in response to a Star-Ledger PolitiFact article which labeled as false the pro-taxpayer groups claim that New Jerseyans are subject to the highest tolls in the nation.
December 14, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
***Lame Duck Alert: Two Bad Bills on Tap in State Legislature!***
CLICK HERE to find the contact information for your state senator in Trenton and tell them to vote 'NO' on the following bills:
Bad Bill #1: A4373/S3118
The last thing New Jersey needs is to squander hundreds of millions more of your tax dollars in poorly run cities like Newark and Camden. But thats exactly what the state Legislature is poised to do with this bill that would send a whopping $140.5 MILLION in so-called Transitional Aid to these urban cesspools of waste and corruption!
Last week this measure passed the Assembly by a vote of 66-12. Now the bill will be making its way to the state Senate.
December 09, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
For Immediate Release December 9, 2011
Americans for Prosperity: RGGI, The $1 Billion Failure
As New Jersey Pulls Out, States Leading Free-Market Group Says Cap-and-Trade Scheme Has Ripped Off Ratepayers, Provided No Environmental or Economic Benefits
BOGOTA, NJ Americans for Prosperity, the states leading free-market, grassroots organization is once again calling the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) a failure in the wake of the latest top secret auction of carbon permits. Yesterday was New Jerseys last RGGI auction with the states departure becoming official as of 2012.
November 30, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
New Jersey is about to pour $100 MILLION in taxpayer subsidies into a risky scheme to install windmills off of New Jersey's coast!
The Beacon Hill Institute cost analysis of this misguided project shows...
The project would produce a net cost of $3.245 billion to New Jersey, within a range of $2.106 billion and $4.137 billion,
New Jerseys electricity prices will increase by 2.1 percent, in 2017, within a range of 0.5 percent and 4.2 percent; and
From 2017 to 2036, the average household ratepayer will pay $431 in higher electricity costs; while the average commercial ratepayer will pay an extra $3,054 and the average industrial ratepayer an extra $109,335.
November 30, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
For Immediate Release November 30, 2011
Cap-and-Trade and Kean, Perfect Together
Americans for Prosperity Rips Former Governor Tom Kean for His Gore-Like Global Warming Rant
BOGOTA, NJ Americans for Prosperity is firing back today at former Gov. Tom Kean for comments he made at a Rutgers University conference regarding the RGGI Cap-and-Trade program.
As reported by NJ Spotlight, Kean laced into those skeptical of the global warming argument, calling on AGW alarmists to "confront those who don't believe in the science of it for the ignorant people that they are" and saying that Gov. Christies decision to withdraw from the RGGI Cap-and-Trade scheme was a shame.
