It’s a new year, but as the calendar has turned to 2018, it’s been business as usual for John McCann. McCann still refuses to say whether or not he supports the massive Tax Hike Bill paid for largely on the backs of New Jersey taxpayers and signed into law before Christmas.

Homeowners in the state rushed to prepay their property taxes to get one last crack at a State and Local Tax Deduction (SALT) before the law needlessly gutted it. But that’s a fact seemingly lost on McCann, who repeatedly raised taxes on families in his own town, and now has been in no rush at all to take a position on a law that experts say will drive up taxes, cut the state’s property values by up to twenty percent — and lead to a mass exodus of jobs and businesses to other states.

While McCann hems and haws, a broad, bipartisan range of elected officials and organizations across the state, from business groups to law enforcement, have voiced their opposition to the Tax Hike Bill including the New Jersey Realtors, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, the New Jersey Business and Industry Association and the New Jersey Bankers Association. Meanwhile, every Republican and Democratic member of the state’s Congressional delegation, save for one, voted against this clear assault on New Jersey families.

“John McCann’s silence can only be seen as tacit support for the Moocher States like Alabama and Mississippi that will now take an even bigger slice of the tax dollars New Jersey families send to Washington. As Congressman Gottheimer fights back with a plan to counteract the Take Hike Bill and cut taxes, the only fighting John McCann is doing is desperately avoiding going on the record about this critical issue that affects so many lives. It’s a simple yes or no question: Do you, John McCann, support the federal Tax Hike Bill? Your silence can only be interpreted as a yes,” said Gottheimer campaign spokesperson Andrew Edelson.