I would normally agree with you, but not in this case. I don't know how familiar you are with the way New Jersey works, but I'll point out that Jim McGreevey is no different than any governor since the mid-1970s. Different types of taxes have been raised or cut at various times over the last three decades, but the rate of government spending in this state has consistently been on an upward trend
every single year, no matter which party controlled the state legislature and no matter which party occupied the governor's mansion. Any attempts to cut taxes over that period have been nothing more than back-door methods of passing government costs on to other layers of government.
People in New Jersey who pay relatively low state income and gasoline taxes think they've got it great compared to their counterparts across the river in New York, but when you add up all the taxes that are paid to different levels of government you'll find that the overall tax burden is almost identical.
This place is simply going broke, and there is nothing that McGreevey or anyone else is going to do about it as long as the people who live here maintain their Third World view of government.
Oh I do agree with you. As they say people deserve the government they get. And now they're slowly discovering you can't get something for nothing. Alas it will probably take a major upheaval to shake New Jerseyites out of their addiction to socialism.