Brian Lair on WNYC.

Well, this just in, Governor Hokel is proposing a 50% tariff on goods and services imported from New Jersey. We can take your reactions at

212-433 WNYC. Again, this just in. Governor Hokel is proposing a 50% tariff on goods and services

imported from New Jersey. Good idea? 212-433-9-6-9-2. Sounds like a good idea to me.

What do you think? The governor asks, why raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers like Mayor Mammondani

is asking for when we can get the same money through tariffs on foreigners, people from New Jersey. Makes a lot of

sense, right? Why raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers like Mabdani wants when we can get the same

money through tariffs on foreigners, people from New Jersey of 50% tariffs? Thinking about it,

there are many products and services on which New York

could impose these tariffs, like, do you ever eat Jersey tomatoes? They're usually around

$2 a pound, very yummy. Well, why should farmers in New Jersey profit off of New Yorkers'

appetite for tomatoes? The governor says make foreigners, the Jersey farmers, chip in a dollar

a pound to the state of New York, a 50% tariff when New Yorkers buy Jersey tomatoes. Or better yet,

says the governor, farmers should relocate their Jersey tomato farms to create jobs in New York

to avoid the tariffs. Then you would have Jersey tomatoes.

They just would be made in New York. That makes sense, right? So listeners in New York,

do you like that idea? 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-9-2. Another example, I think the governor's order, I'm looking at the fine print,

includes this one, prescription drugs that New Yorkers take. You know that New Jersey has all

those pharmaceutical companies, right? Johnson and Johnson has their world headquarters in New

Brunswick. Novon Nord Johnson has their world headquarters in New Brunswick,

Novo Nordisk, Nordisk has their North American headquarters, and I think it's Plainsborough.

Why let big pharma from New Jersey get over on patients from New York?

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