Okay. Remember that if your house catches fire.
That would be a great point if people in NJ were still buying houses; the costs of the government workforce specifically (which has given us ridiculously high property taxes) have caused a mass exodus of American taxpayers and employers from the state to places with lower built-in “workfare” overhead.
Many towns in NJ have volunteer fire departments, and those employed in the municipalities with paid departments usually live (and pay property taxes is) towns with volunteers. Apparently the fire protection services they insist are necessary for the town employing them aren’t necessary where their beloved wives and children sleep...
Even better, many of our state employees (in Trenton) live right across the Delaware River in beautiful, lower-cost PENNSYLVANIA.