Phil Murphy’s Tax-and-Spend Policies Would Hurt New Jersey Families

May 8, 2017

Democrat gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy claims that he’s focused on strengthening the middle class, but his tax-and-spend policies would hurt New Jersey families and make the state less affordable. As Murphy uses his Goldman Sachs millions in an attempt to buy the governor’s mansion, his campaign consistently turns to tax hikes to pay for his out-of-touch policy proposals. New Jersey can’t afford Phil Murphy as governor.

The Bergen Record reports:

“As Phil Murphy, the ex-Goldman Sachs banker, continues to fill out his profile as a liberal candidate for governor, one thing has become clear: He’s not afraid of uttering the dreaded t-word.

Murphy, a Democrat running for his first elected office, has endorsed raising taxes on millionaires. He supports taxing the sale of marijuana, assuming it becomes legal by passing the Legislature now controlled by Democrats. Murphy figures it could potentially raise $300 million in revenue.

And on Thursday, Murphy expressed a willingness to consider imposing some sort of broad-based tax dedicated to mass transit funding.

“There are a number of things on the table,” Murphy said in a news conference outside the Trenton train station.

Murphy has spent the unusually long slog of a campaign — he formally entered the race a year ago — defining himself as a kind of progressive, new century champion of the middle class.

Yet in many ways, he’s a old school tax-and-spend Democrat.”