Phil Kerpen

Join our fight to repeal New Jersey's cap-and-trade law at www.NoNJCapAndTrade.com.

By Phil Kerpen
Published August 04, 2010 | FoxNews.com

Cap-and-trade is stalled in Congress but it’s already up and running in 10 Northeastern states – and it isn’t pretty. With a drumbeat building in New Jersey for repeal of the state cap-and-trade legislation and attention in the global warming debate being increasingly focuses on the states, this could be a key turning point in the state-level fight over global warming taxes.

Mark Lagerkvist of New Jersey Watchdog has blown the lid off the secretive – and possibly corrupt – working of the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, pronounced like the name Reggie), the nation’s only currently-operating cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gases and the model for a the proposed national program.

Read the rest at FOX Forum.

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May 6th, 2009 4:26 PM Eastern
By Phil Kerpen
Conservative Commentator

The first electoral battle on the conservative comeback trail won’t be in 2010, or even in November of 2009; it’s just weeks away on June 2 and it will be waged inside the Republican Party in the seemingly deep blue state of New Jersey. Former Bogota, New Jersey Mayor Steve Lonegan is running on a platform that touches on all of the best pro-growth, supply-side ideas of the past 30 years, and it’s starting to look like he might very well win. His opponent, former U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, is using tired, liberal talking points to attack Lonegan’s agenda. Surprisingly some conservatives who should know better continue to support Christie as the only candidate who can win in November. They’re wrong. Lonegan can win, and his agenda deserves the strong support of fiscal conservatives.

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
By PHIL KERPEN and ERIC PHILLIPS

Gov. Ed Rendell's recklessly ambitious $27.3 billion budget proposal is a grave threat to Pennsylvania taxpayers and the state economy. Instead of restraining galloping spending growth, the governor wants to hike taxes on everything from garbage disposal to electricity consumption.

Promises of tax relief are largely sleight of hand to justify much larger tax increases. Pennsylvanians who believe in fiscal responsibility must not be fooled.

Government should have nothing to hide from those who fund it.

By Phil Kerpen

A movement toward greater openness and transparency in government spending is sweeping the country. It began last year with federal legislation to create a website with a publicly searchable database of all federal grants and awards. This year it has taken hold at the state level, with similar measures moving in at least 17 state legislatures. These initiatives have broad bipartisan support and few public opponents, although it remains to be seen whether they can overcome entrenched special interests and be enacted into law.