New Jersey Pushing Unconstitutional Property Tax Grab, Cutting Municipal Aid
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) will soon notify all 564 municipalities that state aid for their upcoming budgets will be reduced by $150 million, officials announced. The funding cut comes from the elimination of the Municipal Relief Fund, which had been financed through income tax collections and distributed using a fair funding formula. What municipalities will not be told, according to Sen. Declan O’Scanlon (R-13), is that the state budget redirected those funds to support special line items outside of the established formula. Republican senators have raised concerns, arguing that the move violates the