I have to assume you live there or there would be no reason to say that. Or you left there. Because only a person who is not all there would make such a blanket comment about a state.
I think people should move out of states where the average income is what it was in 1970 and where they take much more money from the government than they give to the feds.
. That would be a whole bunch of southern States and Midwestern states
In fact nine of the top 10 takers
Got something to be very proud of
You seem to have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. Leave the insults out, they do you no credit. New Jersey is a high tax state and has been for a long time. That’s the main reason people leave. The argument that NJ and other northeastern states are “givers” whereas low tax Southern states are “takers” is because retired people move there. The fact that they receive federal benefits such as Social Security and Medicare is precisely the reason why more federal money goes to those states than to NJ and other Northeastern states, along with the fact that most federal facilities such as military bases are located there. We know a number of couples who have moved out. They pay about ten percent of the property taxes they were paying previously. The problem is that NJ people tend to take their voting habits with them and vote for those very policies which created the conditions they are fleeing.