In the traditional GOP district of New Jersey, the Republican tax bill has disgruntled voters

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In the traditional GOP district of New Jersey, the Republican tax bill has disgruntled voters











This congressional district of northern New Jersey is more divided politically than it was two decades ago, but there is something on which everyone agrees: the tax burden is too high.



New Jersey not only has the highest property taxes in the nation, but the four counties that make up Congressional District 11 also have the highest state taxes. And although the district has bowed Republican for more than 20 years, the tax bill President Donald Trump and Republican congressmen pushed through last December - designed to help Republican Party candidates in the medium term choices - it might not lead Republican voters to the polls, after all.



In fact, it could do the opposite.



According to a recent poll by Monmouth University, voters in this wealthy district are not exactly happy with the Republican Party's tax measure: 43 percent approve and 46 percent disapprove and almost a third of voters disapprove significantly. Only about 1 in 4 voters approve it firmly.





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The President, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, RN.J., speaks during a surcharge hearing on the House Appropriations Committee for Military and Veterans Affairs expenses, at Capitol Hill, on May 8, 2018, at Washington, DC

The part of the tax bill that shook the Republican trend status quo in this suburban district is the much lower limit on state and local tax deductions, or the SALT limit: set at $ 10,000.



More than 41 percent of New Jersey residents rely on SALT deductions to offset high local and state taxes, one of the highest percentages in the country. Other states, such as New York and California, are also seeing a rejection of residents who rely on the limit to reduce their general taxes.



The SALT cap is causing political reverberations here. It was the reason why Republican Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, the long-time chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, went against the president and the party and voted against the bill. Now, Frelinghuysen is retiring, and the 11th in New Jersey is a race for open seats for the first time since he was elected 12 terms in Congress.



And the big electoral problem: taxes.





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Republican Assemblyman Jay Webber speaks at a forum of candidates at UJC MetroWest New Jersey, on October 9, 2018, in Whippany, N.J.

"Absolutely," said Jay Webber, the Republican congressional candidate in the district, taxes are the number one issue for voters. "And there is nothing that is close to the second, New Jersey is the most overburdened state in the union," he told ABC News.



"It's going to be a big part of the election," agreed his opponent, Democrat Mikie Sherrill, in a separate interview.



But while they agree that the tax burden should be reduced, each candidate insists that his opponent will generate a tax increase.



"People desperately want relief," said Webber, a conservative state assemblyman and lawyer who grew up in the district and is raising his family of nine here.



"And that's why taxes are the number one problem for me, I want to cut them in. My opponent does not, and it's a big difference between the two of us," he said.





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Democratic Congressional candidate Mikie Sherrill poses for a photo while campaigning at the New Jersey State Fair in Augusta, N.J., August 12, 2018.

But her opponent says that she really wants to cut taxes; The new bill is simply not the best way for New Jersey, which says it already gives a lot to a Washington. Sherrill, too, has made tax cuts the central theme of his campaign. The difference is that Webber supports the fiscal measure of the GOP while Sherrill opposes, although both say they will try to eliminate the SALT limit.



"I think voters simply know that this tax plan has been bad for them. They have gone to their accountants. They know how much money they can deduct in January, "he said. The average SALT deduction in the district is around $ 20,000, double what is allowed under the new SALT limit.



"You can not put the wool over your eyes and acting this way is a great tax plan for New Jersey," Sherrill said.



But Webber, who held a campaign event with the bill's lead proponent, House Speaker Paul Ryan in the district on Wednesday, believes Sherrill's outlook is "negative."



"We will continue to be clear that the tax law that Congress passed last year is a net tax cut for the average family of four in this district, in the amount of $ 6,000," Webber said, citing Republic statistics. Execute the House Ways and Means Committee.



"I never put my finger in the wind and say: 'What do the polls say?' And then I discover my platform, "Weber said, responding to polls that show the Republican Party plan could be problematic.



In the thriving city of Mountain Lakes, the joke among parents is that when students reach the ninth grade, families move to the side of Boonton Township, where property taxes are lower but students can still attend school. Mountain Lakes High School.





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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, flanked by Republican lawmakers, speaks during a registration ceremony for the conference report to the 1st. Degree, the Law of Tax and Employment Cuts. which was approved this week by the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the US Capitol. UU., On December 21, 2017.

Mary Bovich, a resident of Essex County, where state taxes are the highest in the district, said she pays $ 27,000 in property taxes in her hometown of Verona.



"They are horrible, they are absolutely out of control," he said. "I'm only going to be able to deduct $ 10,000, am I angry about that? Yes, I am."



But Bovich, an unconditional supporter of Webber who voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election, still teams up with his party. Bovich does not believe that small deductions from SAL are the problem.



"That's how I see it, deduction is medication, cancer is high taxes, yes, I'm sorry I can not take the full medication, but the problem is the high taxes," he said, on the sidelines of the third and final debate between Webber and Sherrill. in Wayne, New Jersey.



"City, county and state taxes should be reduced," Bovich said.



However, there is no doubt that for voters of either party, especially in a district where the median income is more than $ 108,000, well above what is nationally, taxes are the motivating issue.



"Are people vulnerable to tax messages? Yes, "said Dana Pogorzelski, a mother of three and a retired Mountain Lakes consultant who started an action group that supports Sherrill.



"I think it's a two-part problem," he said. "The first part is that we're all getting a tax cut and we do not, and then, in general, New Jersey is already a donor relative to other states, so it just seems crazy that New Jersey needs to give even more," He said. New Jersey residents paid a record average of $ 8,690 in property taxes in 2017, according to state data.



But Webber, who has been consistently funded by his opponent despite the district's Republican history, is prepared to stay the course and stand firm in his party.



"Some people like it, others do not," he said. "I think you'd find that a lot of Democrats do not like it because it's a partisan issue, because Donald Trump He did it, and many Republicans like it because it's a Republican bill. "

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