So why is Donald Trump sticking it to New Jersey?

Newark Star-Ledger ^ | March 10, 2018 | Jonathan D. Salant

[GuavaCheesePuff]

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's new-found opposition to funding the Gateway Tunnel project is just the latest example of how he's championed policies that punish New Jersey, where he has long ties and spends his spring weekends and summer vacation.

The Trump-backed tax plan targeted New Jersey and other high-tax states by curbing the federal deduction for state and local taxes, and he backed Affordable Care Act repeal efforts that disproportionately cut funding from those states, which expanded Medicaid in order to expand coverage.

Meanwhile, New Jersey taxpayers send billions of dollars more to Washington than they get back in services, and his policies would only make that discrepancy worse.

[riverrunner]

So why is Donald Trump sticking it to New Jersey?

Because NJ is a liberal hell hole.

[goldstategop]

NJ will never vote for him.

Its a classic case of punish your enemies and reward your friends.

Exactly what Trump is doing.

[Flick Lives]

Meanwhile, New Jersey taxpayers send billions of dollars more to Washington than they get back in services, and his policies would only make that discrepancy worse.

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I thought Libs liked wealth redistribution?

[9YearLurker]

Because he’s from NY—and whiners like this are from NJ.

[Salvey]

"It seems very clear that a guiding principle of the Trump administration is to punish people who didn't support him," said Matthew Hale

As a New Jerseyan, I don't have any problem with that.

[Boston Blackie]

What a bunch of sniveling snot-suckers.

[sauropod]

How did NJ vote in the 2016 election?

Here’s your sign.

[Cicero]

Actually, New Jersey is sticking to New Jersey, and Trump sees no reason to pick up the tab.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The question is "Why is New Jersey sticking it to Donald Trump?".

How many electoral votes from New Jersey went to Donald Trump?
 

[goldstategop]

Yup. They like paying higher taxes.

Why should taxpayers from Red states subsidize them?

AS long as they keep electing Democrats, they get what they deserve.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Clinton won NJ 55-41.

Trump did well in the Jersey Shore and northwestern NJ (Morris-Warren)

Trump did well in some parts of central Jersey.

[eyeamok]

expanded Medicaid in order to expand coverage.

We Gave all the poor free stuff now Trump doesn’t want to pay for it, boo frikkin hoo.

[miss marmelstein]

Because it is a totally corrupt state, that's why. Look at Menendez and Christie, for God's sake.

[Olog-hai]

Well, it was not the government that built the rail tunnels under the river in the first place, but private enterprise. Of course, as soon as the government took it over, the maintenance went way, way down. And now they want to build supplementary tunnels at about ten times the cost it took the private sector to build the first ones, with environmental impact reports, this and that mitigation, union and politician featherbedding, ad nauseam, piled on top.

Not to mention, thanks to the NYC government’s emissions rules from two centuries ago and federal high-water-mark clearance requirements, it is nigh impossible to build bridges across the Hudson River.

[goldstategop]

Just another Blue Northeastern sh*thole.

One that’s been taxed and run for decades by the Democrats into the ground.

No reason to reward their liberalism and and extravagant profligacy.

[Tallguy]

A president must not only reward his friends but punish his political foes. Trump is in the process of deepening his support in the industrial rustbelt states that put him in the White House. Why should he reward states like NJ & NY who heavily favor Hillary and her paranoid brand of politics?

[faucetman]

So why is Donald Trump sticking it to New Jersey?

“....New Jersey, where he has long ties and spends his spring weekends and summer vacation.”

And did New Jersey VOTE for Trump? Covfefe (so F off)

[mad_as_he$$]

WWHHaaaa! Crybaby.

[American in Israel]

The tax laws are applied unilaterally evenly across all states. New Jersey is sticking it to itself and blaming it on Trump.