Reading the New York Times blog is a trip into a whole different mindset, where rocking-horse people eat marshmellow pies. Here's one blog entry about how a majority of people in New Jersey want to get the heck out of the Garden State because they're fed up with sky-high taxes, especially property taxes.
But please don't take your tax revenue from New Jersey, begs the NY Times. There's some history and stuff:
New Jersey is rich in history, from the Aaron Burr-Alexander-Hamilton duel, to the invention of the lightbulb. And it has produced a steady stream of great Americans, such as Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Springsteen.And, besides, you'll eventually have to pay higher taxes wherever you go, so you might as well just stay:
In any case, there is a flaw in the grass-is-greener thinking. As more and more people needing more and more government services head to less populated areas, over-development, and congestion, and taxes are likely to increase there as well.Yeah, the pursuit of happiness is for chumps. Now sit down, you're blockin' the TV and the Giants are on.
2 comments:
I evacuated from Cherry Hill, NJ 7 years ago this January. The property taxes are a joke. I live out west now, pay $1200 a year in taxes for a house 25 times nicer than the joint in lived in back there.
New Jersey is finished. It is only a matter of time now.
So is representative democracy, but you don't see me weeping and whining about it.
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