[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I remember reading an article posted on FR about the history of NJ economy. How in the 1920s through the 1970s, it was a great place to raise a family and escape the high taxes of NY. That’s where all the Wall Street execs lived, was in NJ. If someone can find that article I’d appreciate it. I even googled for it but couldn’t find it.

[Clemenza]

Still is second in median income (behind Maryland), but it always had political corruption and union thugs. What happened was as the urbanites moved to suburbia after WWII, they brought their scum politics with them. Add an income tax starting under the Byrne administration, along with growing local bureaucracy/school district fiefdoms so that everyone's dumb cousin can have a job, and you can see why the state is in the state that it is.

That article was from City Journal. I took issue with many of the points of the article, as NJ (at least in the urban areas) was far from idyllic.