Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean

January 17, 2012   

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Senator Tom Kean

Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean, Jr. (R- Union) issued this statement following Governor Christie’s 2012 State of the State Address:

“In government, we should do what is proven to work and learn from what has failed.

“New Jerseyans are more optimistic about the future of our state and her economy today than they have been in years because legislative Republicans and Governor Christie have taken our state in a different direction.

“What we’ve been doing is working, despite the doomsday, class warfare predictions of those who were happy to continue spending money we didn’t have and raising taxes to pay for it.

“Business leaders are optimistic about the state’s climate for job creation, and 60, 000 private sector jobs have been created. Property taxes are coming under control, and sanity has been restored to public pensions and benefits.

“But most importantly, our insistence on fiscal discipline is keeping faith with taxpayers who were tired of being shaken down year after year to finance the whims of politicians.

“The agenda put forth by Governor Christie and Republicans in the Senate and Assembly is yielding results. Today, the Governor rightly called on all of us to double down on a pro-growth, pro-jobs agenda by reducing taxes for every New Jerseyan and restoring the earned income tax credit for the working poor.

“We will show individuals and job creators that we are serious about not only stabilizing the cost of living and doing business in New Jersey, but actually reducing it.

“I invite my colleagues to put nostalgia for the old days aside and join us in pressing forward with what has been working for New Jersey.”

Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean, Jr. (R- Union) issued this statement following Governor Christie’s 2012 State of the State Address: “In government, we should do what is proven to work and learn from what has failed. “New Jerseyans are more optimistic about the future of [...]