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New Jersey residents are fuming over New York’s pending new Manhattan congestion tax — and threatening to exhaust every option to stall the plan.

“It’s taxation without representation,” Ron Simoncini, executive director of the new Fair Congestion Pricing Alliance. Members of the alliance are upset by what they say is a New York plan to pick the pockets of thousands of New Jersey residents.

“We’re not going to relent if New Jersey commuters are discriminated against, period,” Gov. Murphy said at a recent meeting of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce.  

At odds are fees New Jersey drivers will be forced to pay the state of New York to drive into Manhattan’s “congestion zone” below 60th Street. New York’s goal is to implement the plan in 2023.

Hearings by New York officials with New Jersey residents to discuss congestion fees are “a dog and pony show,” Simoncini said. Just a thought.