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By amount paid, yes. Also remember that it's some of the most expensive real estate in the country, so it's not shocking that they also pay high taxes. It's not necessarily the highest by tax rate (though upstate new york, which has low property values, is very high on the rate paid).
Surprisingly, low-tax Texas has some of the highest property tax RATES of any state, though since property values are low in Texas they are middling in amount paid. Of course, since Texas lacks state income tax, property taxes and sales taxes are the main way the state raises money.
Both New Jersey and New York have been hijacked for many years by certain public employee unions and other organized special interests. Very few politicians have stood up for the taxpayer side of the equation. Fortunately both states now have Governors who are finally trying to bring a more balanced approach.
Our neighbors in Connecticut increasingly have some of the same problems we do but unfortunately have been less lucky with their new governor.
It's a combination of too much government, machine politics, and being the suburbs of the greatest city in the country.
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