Governor Christie proposed a 10% income tax cut for all New Jersey income tax payers, and a restoration of the Earned Income Tax Credit, as part of the governor’s State of the State address. The tax cut, which would be phased in over a three-year period, would return nearly $1 billion in income...

President Obama’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction contains a provision, known as the “Enterprise Value Tax”, that would increase the federal taxation on a sale of any business structured as a partnership from a capital gains rate of 15% to the ordinary income rates that now reach...

  Charles Murray Discusses Cultural Inequality in the Untied States at the New Jersey Liberty Breakfast Wednesday, February 15, 2012 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. The Stony Hill Inn 231 Polifly Road Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 $135 includes breakfast, and a hardcover copy of Charles Murray’s...

Mark ‘Jay’ Williams Economics Fellow While educators have been working to bring about technology in the classroom through the use of devices such as smart boards and interactive learning, the assessment of all that learning is often put into the same paper-based grade-books that were used when most...

by Jerry Cantrell President Every year, New Jerseyans get to vote directly on one and only one spending plan — their local school budget. Research developed by the Common Sense Institute of New Jersey details how voters are confused, promised too much and outright misled before they walk into the voting...

Mone brings nearly twenty years of experience as Manhattan Institute President to free-market think tank in his home state The Common Sense Institute of New Jersey (CSI-NJ) welcomed Lawrence J. Mone to its Board of Directors this week. Mone, who has been President of the Manhattan Institute for Policy...

As a follow-up to CSI-NJ’s Misleading the Taxpayer study on the incomplete information New Jerseyans are often presented about per-pupil costs, the Institute offers you the opportunity to see the different estimates for every town in the state. The tables below offer per-pupil expenditure figures...