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Later, Jersey! Why people are leaving the Garden State in droves
New Jersey 101.5 (WKXW, Trenton) ^ | January 4, 2017 10:00 AM | Dennis (Malloy) and Judi (Franco)

Posted on 01/04/2017 3:59:19 PM PST by Olog-hai

For five straight years, a study by United Van Lines says that New Jersey is the state most abandoned in all of the country, meaning the biggest percentage of out-of-state moves that it does are from New Jersey — 63 percent to be specific.

We’ve spoken to so many listeners who have moved out of Jersey over the years that it was difficult to even begin a list of reasons, but here are some things we came up with, just to name a few:

  1. Property Taxes (obviously): When you talk to family and friends from out of town and realize that they are paying in a year what you’re paying in a month for your property taxes, it’s hard to think of not booking the next airplane or moving van out of here.
  2. Corruption: The only state in the country that allows the kind of double dipping and other public employment shenanigans that we do here in the state.
  3. Overregulation: Especially for small businesses, it’s difficult to get anything done in a state where there’s a rule and a fee for everything and almost everything is illegal. …

(Excerpt) Read more at nj1015.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: christie; exodus; gardenstate; migration; overregulation
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To: Olog-hai; All
”1 ) Property Taxes (obviously): When you talk to family and friends from out of town and realize that they are paying in a year what you’re paying in a month for your property taxes, it’s hard to think of not booking the next airplane or moving van out of here."
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

If patriots support Trump in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, then the following will possibly happen.

The states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues that they don’t know what to do with. And if that happens then states like NJ can quit picking on property owners.

Patriots need to support Trump in draining the unconstitutional big federal government swamp.

41 posted on 01/04/2017 4:34:23 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Thibodeaux

So are they going to New York and Connecticut?


42 posted on 01/04/2017 4:35:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: boomop1

That is why Cary, North Carolina is really an acronym: C.A.R.Y.
Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.

43 posted on 01/04/2017 4:35:52 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Amendment10

I doubt NJ is charging exorbitant property taxes solely because of what the federal government is doing. They wanted to own just about all the public transit, plus maintain its own bloated welfare state, among other anti-American things.


44 posted on 01/04/2017 4:36:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Samantha: Easy, sport. I got myself outta Beirut once, I think I can get outta New Jersey.

Mitch: Yeah? Well, don't be so sure. Others have tried and failed. The entire population, in fact.


45 posted on 01/04/2017 4:42:23 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Olog-hai

Naw, I wish they were all going to NY and Conn. Down here in Delaware we are getting gobs of NJ retirees with their fat public service pensions and Democrat loyalties, making our screwed up blue state even worse.


46 posted on 01/04/2017 4:43:43 PM PST by Hartlyboy
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To: from occupied ga

Happened in Broward.when I got there in 68 heaven. By 1999 started to suck real bad headed up to Brevard.Its getting there.


47 posted on 01/04/2017 4:44:02 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: freedumb2003
Pennsylvania doesn't want New Jersey, coastline or not.

In fact, a lot of us would like to vote Philadelphia out of the Commonwealth and force them on New Jersey.

It is a pissant sized state anyway. Merge them with the part of Delaware/Maryland north of the canal. Give Delaware the Eastern Shore south of the canal. And give Pennsylvania the Maryland panhandle to compensate us for the loss of Philadelphia and a couple of the collar counties.

Back in colonial times, we actually fought a brief war with Maryland over the panhandle. It is weird shaped (only 1 mile wide at Hancock) and the people in the panhandle vote more like Pennsylvania anyway.

And while you are at it, merge Rhode Island with Connecticut! If a state doesn't have at least 7500 square miles, it doesn't deserve two senators.

48 posted on 01/04/2017 4:48:42 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: freedumb2003
Pennsylvania doesn't want New Jersey, coastline or not.

In fact, a lot of us would like to vote Philadelphia out of the Commonwealth and force them on New Jersey.

It is a pissant sized state anyway. Merge them with the part of Delaware/Maryland north of the canal. Give Delaware the Eastern Shore south of the canal. And give Pennsylvania the Maryland panhandle to compensate us for the loss of Philadelphia and a couple of the collar counties.

Back in colonial times, we actually fought a brief war with Maryland over the panhandle. It is weird shaped (only 1 mile wide at Hancock) and the people in the panhandle vote more like Pennsylvania anyway.

And while you are at it, merge Rhode Island with Connecticut! If a state doesn't have at least 7500 square miles, it doesn't deserve two senators.

49 posted on 01/04/2017 4:48:57 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Blue Jays

I lived there way back when. 1987.


50 posted on 01/04/2017 4:51:36 PM PST by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: Olog-hai

Left New Jersey in 1988 for Houston, TX. Now Houston is getting to be too much like New Jersey. It is getting to be a PITA to do business here (when spending my money). I need to find a good redneck town where no Yankee would venture.


51 posted on 01/04/2017 4:51:38 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Olog-hai

per the study that does not provide destinations, most likely North Carolina,Florida, Texas or Georgia


52 posted on 01/04/2017 4:52:16 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the end of Obama plague is near........ rejoice)
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To: boomop1

The I-77 toll road fiasco may very well have cost McCrory the election in NC.


53 posted on 01/04/2017 4:54:17 PM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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To: Olog-hai

As a lifelong NJ resident I absolutely agree this state sucks. I’m in a ranch house and my taxes are just south of $10K per year. I pay almost 7% sales tax on my purchases, a new gas tax, fees on everything from garbage stickers to youth driving decals for my kids. The public transportation system sucks, the roads are falling apart, bridges and tunnels a mess and the traffic is insane. All for the privilege of living here. That said, the shore is nice, the city is great, pro sports teams in every league, mountains to the north and west. But mostly, the state just sucks. Can’t wait until I retire and join the rest of the movers.


54 posted on 01/04/2017 4:54:43 PM PST by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States)
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To: Olog-hai

The main reason is school taxes and how the municipalities are structured here. Each town and city, about 600 of them, all maintain their own school systems, police departments, fire departments and municipal services. There are some exceptions and regional schools but for the most part everyone has their own everything. So stupid.


55 posted on 01/04/2017 4:57:31 PM PST by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States)
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To: marktwain

I was lame and got my gears switched around..!!!

TOTALLY STUPID MISTAKE..!

I even did it a second time, later on in the thread, wow..!

:(


56 posted on 01/04/2017 4:58:29 PM PST by gaijin
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To: from occupied ga

Yes sir, ruining Pennsylvania. I remember sitting in a dealership waiting room and some woman kept going off about something and saying: “Well I’m from New Jersey”. I said nothing but thought plenty. That was in my more mellow days. I’m fed up at this point.


57 posted on 01/04/2017 5:00:16 PM PST by stevio (God,Guns,Guts.)
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To: from occupied ga

You got that right. My libtard brother moved from Nevada to Florida. Stalin, Mao, Castro and Obama are his heroes.

He would be content to live in a cage and have Obama provide all his needs.


58 posted on 01/04/2017 5:03:36 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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"I doubt NJ is charging exorbitant property taxes solely because of what the federal government is doing."

I think that all state lawmakers, especially lawmakers in CA and NY, would be interested in knowing that the strings-attached federal funding that they are continually begging for are arguably state revenues that the corrupt feds stole by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.

In other words, much “federal” funding shouldn’t have left the states in the first place. And I think that if Trump puts a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes by the infamously wasteful federal government, then the states would not only find it easier to balance their budgets, but they could provide overall tax relief to their citizens.

Also consider that citizens could start making use of state recall laws to weed the crooks out of their state governments, something that they cannot do with their federal representatives unless the constitution is appropriately amended.

59 posted on 01/04/2017 5:06:14 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: Olog-hai

Illinois wrote the book on doubledipping.


60 posted on 01/04/2017 5:07:01 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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