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.

[miss marmelstein]

Frank Lautenberg - who now has a mausoleum called the Secaucus Rail Station.

[BobL]

People in Texas and similar states had to suffer while Obama stuck it to us...sorry NJ, your horse lost in 2016.

[SunkenCiv]

Why are New Jersey voters stickin' it to New Jersey? Why have they been doing it? Why will they continue to do it?

[SunkenCiv]

Why are New Jersey voters stickin' it to New Jersey? Why have they been doing it? Why will they continue to do it?

[Zhang Fei]

First of all..your quoting from the Star Ledger

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The Star Ledger used to be editorially conservative, and quite at odds with the political inclinations of the population of Newark, which it served, but similar to those of the nearby suburbs. But that was decades ago.

[M Kehoe]

Could President Trump believe in using the Valary Jarrett strategy?

You know, punish your enemies and reward your friends.

5.56mm

[Doogle]

I know...I had a small news stand that sold it back in the early 60’s....

[kenmcg]

What did NY, NJ, CA, or CT. ever do for Trump? Its politics, why should he make thugs, Murphy, Schumer and Cuomo look good?

[Ted Grant]

NJ shouldn’t take things so personally.

[Truthoverpower]

Northern and southern NJ
Are two different states
Southern jersey i e Cape May and Wildwood
Are ESPECTACULAR
suburbs of NYC are not

[Wuli]

NY-NJ “infrastructure” projects cannot be done except at great and excessive extravagance. That extravagance stems from basic corruption and the corrupt alliance of unions and politicians that have raised the cost of new infrastructure in the region to the most expensive in the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html

[slowhandluke]

Ditto.

[Teacher317]

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

And Obama NEVER did anything to target or punish Conservatives or red states. Ahem.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yup. The “Superfund State” deserves all the abuse they can get.