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A new study on the fiscal condition of the 50 states ranks New Jersey dead last, citing revenue shortfalls, budget practices and high levels of debt .
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New Jersey ranked last in both budget solvency and long-run solvency, and in the bottom 15 in the other categories.
You can only do so much when you're in the minority party and most mayors and assemblymen don't agree with you on much of anything.
Exactly, there's pettiness on both sides. The state Democrats have blocked every one of Christie's Supreme Court nominees so far just because he's Republican. This happens on local, state, and national levels.
When stuff like this happens, how does anyone expect to get things done?
(Reuters) - U.S. investigators are looking into whether embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie misused about $2 million in Superstorm Sandy relief funds for an ad campaign that put him in the spotlight in an election year, officials said on Monday.
Since 2010, the state has doled out $2.1 billion in incentives, according to
the liberal think tank New Jersey Policy Perspective. By comparison, the state
gave out $1.5 billion in incentives during the previous 10 years.
Critics question whether the tax breaks have done anything to grow jobs in
new Jersey.
The state has been circling the drain for some time now. At this point we can see the little whirlpool and the gurgling sound is getting louder as the last pieces of garbage are sucked into the underworld. This is the absolute worst state for businesses, hands down. It also has one of the highest if not the highest tax burdens in the country. You combine that with the state telling people who pay the most money in the country to live in what was once a nice community that they have to import the trash from other parts of the states and let them live there for free, and people with the means will just leave. Oh yeah, and crime is getting out of control with almost no penalties for violent crime and no way for decent people to defend themselves. You really can't run a state into the ground any harder than this. California eat your heart out.
Jim Florio's still alive, maybe we can get him back.
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