State Taxpayer Bill Of Rights

New Jersey must control the cost of state government and business as usual in Trenton will not bring about necessary change. The people of New Jersey need to pass an amendment to the state’s constitution limiting state spending to the rate of inflation plus population growth. Our legislators need to look no further than Colorado’s TABOR amendment to find a successful model for this initiative.

The chart below shows the dramatic reduction in spending that would have been possible had all states adopted this “bill of rights for taxpayers”.