eventually, there will be no sidewalks, no parks, no zoos, no decent roads, no trails, no libraries, no nothing....
when all the money you collect goes exclusively to the govt workers and their retires, there is nothing left for anything else...
The worst part of it is that while teachers get higher and higher current salaries, the costs of their retirement benefits are hanging over the heads of taxpayers. Like California, anyone coming to NJ would just be buying a share of a massive IOU - so taxpayers and businesses are fleeing/avoiding it altogether.
They are already well on the way to eliminating libraries.