PRO-GROWTH TAX & BUDGET POLICIES
High taxes and bloated budgets have made New Jersey unaffordable for middle class families and the businesses that employ them. Every day, New Jersey families and businesses are voting with their feet and fleeing the State. Jay Webber is a pro-growth, free market advocate who will go to Trenton to enact serious fiscal reform. He wants to cut spending and taxes for New Jersey's families and businesses to reverse the migration of people, capital, and jobs out of State.

Jay has a record of fiscal conservatism. He has taken the Taxpayer Protection Pledge to oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes. He has three times taken Democrat Governors to court on behalf of the Republican Party and taxpayers to challenge the Democrats' unconstitutional schemes to tax, spend, and borrow. As a budget staffer on Capitol Hill in 1995, Jay also helped the first Republican Congress in forty years pass the first balanced budget in a generation. Jay will take those budget-cutting credentials to Trenton and fight to make New Jersey friendly to taxpayers once again.


FAMILY LIFE & EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY image of baby
Jay's Webber is an advocate for the sanctity and dignity of human life. He is pro-life, and on issues such as stem cell research, he will be a voice on behalf of cutting edge, and ethical, advancements that hold great potential for mankind. Jay is also a defender of the traditional family, and he will fight to maintain and restore in our society the central importance of that all-important institution.

Jay has a vested interest in making New Jersey's schools the best they can be -- he wants his three girls to receive excellent educations. Jay will push for a more equitable distribution of state aid for schools, and work with educators to maintain high standards in the classroom. Jay's goal is to provide educational opportunity for every child, at the right price to taxpayers.


ENDING LAWSUIT ABUSE
Jay Webber supports ending lawsuit abuse in New Jersey. The State’s legal climate harms patients, doctors, consumers, and workers. Lawsuit abuse threatens jobs and makes the State one of the worst places in the nation to do business, while diminishing the integrity and consistency of our justice system. Jay stands with women, senior citizens, and their doctors against the forces driving them out of State. Jay will work for reform that protects the freedoms and entrepreneurial spirit that lawsuit abuse attacks.

During his experience in government and law, Jay already has promoted positive reform on this issue . As a Program Assistant at the Manhattan Institute, Jay worked for the Center for Civil Justice Reform in stopping frivolous lawsuits. Jay also has published his ideas about a legislative ban on wrongful birth and wrongful life lawsuits in First Things, a highly respected public opinion journal. And as a candidate in 2003, Jay presented a four-point plan to alleviate the medical malpractice crisis, including a strong cap on non-economic damages.


CLEANING UP A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
The hard corruption of political bribery and payoffs is not the only plague from which New Jersey suffers. A soft corruption -- activity that is technically legal, but nevertheless is unethical and wrong -- is also corrosive on New Jersey's government, and on the confidence New Jerseyans have in their government. Double dipping, pension abuse, and nepotism lead to conflicts of interest that cost taxpayers millions. Pay-to-play abuse remains unaddressed. Jay Webber is committed to cleaning up the hard and soft cultures of corruption to restore fiscal and moral integrity to New Jersey’s government.


Listen to Jay testifying before a joint legislative committee regarding pension reform in September 2006.