“The real estate website Zillow looked at median property taxes across the U.S. last year and found that seven of the 10 counties with the highest property taxes — Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union, Morris, Hudson and Hunterdon — are in New Jersey. The remaining three were in New York.”
Do you think there are that many rich people in NJ? This just means we have the richest public school teachers and cops. Using a rural county like Cumberland for comparison is absurd; the whole county has less people than Jersey City in my county (Hudson). Also, urban cesspools don’t re-evaluate, so their taxes are very low; that just puts the burden on the surrounding municipalities in that county. Look up my town (Kearny, NJ - sandwiched between Newark and Jersey City); we have plenty of homes with over $10K in taxes, and it is not rich by any means. It is past 50% Hispanic, and increasingly more every day. FWIW, I conceded areas with $20K taxes were wealthy.
If I’m inflating the truth, why are there “for sale” signs all over NJ? These people heading to your state will end up doing the same thing down there; you can probably already see the effect.
I used Cumberland because article used it for median taxes of some counties in NJ, so NOT all counties are taxed that high, only ones with expensive homes!
The number you used was for the most expensive county, and that wasn’t median for all NJ...
https://nces.ed.gov/edfin/pdf/StFinance/NorthCa.pd
Not sure who asked for NC info, as to use of property taxes for schools....so there is the link. A few years old but should be same.
NC has a lottery (like SC) that pays for a lot of public school expenses. In fact, SC builds new schools all the time with their lottery money, nice schools.