Two years removed from “failed economic policies of Chris Christie," New Jersey’s progressive advocates said Tuesday that the state’s Democratic leaders still haven’t done enough to turn the page for residents still struggling to get by.

At a news conference outside the Statehouse in Trenton, groups representing education, environment, transit, low-income working family and immigration interests pushed tax policies that go beyond anything proposed by Gov. Phil Murphy, their progressive ally, including overhauling income tax brackets, restoring the estate tax and expanding services subject to sales taxes.

“We can no longer pretend that the state can afford to meet its obligations, meet the needs of its citizens and restore our credit rating without new revenue,” said Dena Mottola Jaborska of New Jersey Citizen Action. “We can’t go forward by funding by one priority at the expense of another.”

“We have Democrats funding housing but not health care. We have Democrats funding transit but not public education. We need all of it."

The groups, collectively calling themselves For The Many, proposed tax changes it says would generate more than $3 billion a year. About $1 billion would come from new income tax brackets that would raise taxes on everyone making more than $250,000 a year, with the highest earners paying 12 percent on income over $5 million.

Raising the sales tax back to 7 percent and restoring the estate tax would bring more than $1.1 billion. The estate tax was eliminated and the sales tax was cut as part of a 2016 deal to raise taxes on gasoline.

They also want a $500 million tax on health insurers and $400 million by extending a surcharge on taxes paid by corporations.

Expanding the sales tax to include “high-end” services, such as interior design and horse training, closing corporate tax loopholes, uncapping taxes on luxury yacht sales, and new fees on gun registrations would raise nearly $200 million more.

Staci Berger, president of the Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey, said the state needs revenue to just help New Jerseyans meet their basic needs, like health care and housing.

“These are not pie-in-the-sky things,” she said. “If we have people who can afford to pay more because they have a higher income or they’ve inherited wealth, they have enough homes and enough cars and enough places to go on vacation that they can put a few more pennies into the state budget.”

Murphy, a Democrat, will unveil his budget next week, and he’s made it clear he will for the third time propose an increase in the income tax rate paid by people with more than $1 million in income known as the millionaires tax. He’s fought to include this tax hike in each of his previous two budgets but was been rebuffed by state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, D-Gloucester.

The Democrats did compromise on a tax increase on people with income over $5 million.

Samantha Marcus may be reached at smarcus@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @samanthamarcus.

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