New Jersey’s income tax has a top rate of 10.75% exceeded only by New York and California. Its sales tax is nearly 7%, and property taxes are the highest of all 50 states at nearly double the national average.  The corporate tax is also near the highest in the nation. Energy costs – driven by Green New Deal regs – are the 5th most onerous in the country.

According to the Democratic Governor’s Association’s new $20 million ad campaign, the tax hike to fear is Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli, who wants “a 50% sales tax increase” on essentials like food and clothing and is “pushing a 10% sales tax” overall.

What Ciattarelli actually said was that he wants New Jersey to have a tax code more like booming Tennessee – with no income tax and much lower property tax. “We’re going to look at what other states do, and every option is on the table,” he told his audience. Twisting that into a call for a tax hike is false advertising that would get a private business in line for a lawsuit.

Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill’s own tax relief plan is… well there is none that we can see. We sure hope she has a big pro-growth tax cut plan, but where is it?