“The budget I put forward will not come with any tax increases,” NJ Gov. Murphy said in his State of the State. 'We will continue our work taking on the one issue that has stood in the way of too many New Jersey families for far too long – property taxes.”
of Murphy telling a business group that if taxes were their issue, they shouldn’t come to New Jersey.
The annual speech is usually given before a joint session of the New Jersey State Legislature, which was in Trenton on Tuesday for. And while governors typically use their address to lay out their legislative goals for the year, Murphy spent most of the speech looking back on his first term. “We have shown you can make economic progress and social progress at the same time. In fact, one helps the other,” Murphy said. “The proof? … We’ve jumped 43 spots in economic growth among American states – from 47th when I took office to fourth today.” He was citing data from the U.S. Department of Commerce that measures the total value of goods and services produced by each state.
Murphy also pointed to other first-term successes, such as raising the minimum wage and boosting the state’s green economy with a new wind energy port and turbine manufacturing facility. But one of his major policy victories got short shrift in the speech. The governor barely mentioned the legalization of marijuana, the rollout of which has been
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