Posted on 10/18/2007 3:28:31 PM PDT by nmh
Even New Jerseyans can't stand living in New Jersey, according to a new poll that said nearly half of adults residing in the Garden State want to pull up stakes.
The Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll, released Wednesday, found 49 percent of those polled would rather live somewhere else.
New Jersey already is suffering from an image problem and bears the brunt of jokes because of its corruption and pollution problems. But 58 percent of those residents polled said the heavy financial burden of just living in the state is no laughing matter, and that's why they want to leave.
Poll participants cited
high property taxes (28 percent),
the cost of living (19 percent),
state taxes (5 percent) and
housing costs (6 percent)
as the main reasons they want out.
The poll also found that 51 percent of those who expressed a desire to leave planned to do so, with adults under the age of 50 making between $50,000 and $100,000 the most likely to flee.
"If you have the ability to leave and you don't see any possibility for change with the way the state is run — and that's the No. 1 issue here — you have to vote with your feet," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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"The high cost of living in the Northeast is not news," Brendan Gilfillan, a spokesman for Gov. Jon Corzine, said in an e-mail statement. "But it is one of the reasons Gov. Corzine has worked tirelessly to help poor and working-class residents of New Jersey by implementing the Earned Income Tax Credit, expanding S-CHIP and increasing — and sustaining — property tax relief."
"Gilfillan said Corzine also had cut costs by reducing the government workforce, though he noted people would continue to leave New Jersey as baby boomers retired."
What NONSENSE!
Corzine has raised our sales tax to 7% from 6% and extended that tax to previously UNTAXED items.
There has been NO PROPERTY TAX RELIEF.
Earned Income tax credit is a JOKE.
The S-CHIP would be GOVERNMENT health care. The DOCTORS and medical professionals would have the GOVERNMENT as their employers and it would be awful. Private insurance is available to people making 82K. Trying to fund this through TAXES on cigarettes is ridicuous - more people are quitting so AGAIN, TAXES would be RAISED to fund the GOVERNMENT healthcare.
He'd also like ILLEGALS to have healthcare.
It's not just babyboomers retiring it working folks that are tired of this crap. So don't blame it on retirees besides isn't it a shame that many can NOT retire here.
The other half already moved to VT and ME and ruined those two states...
New Jersey needs tougher seatbelt laws.
The Deomocrats that control this state are destroying it.
“High prices aren’t the only thing driving people out. New Jersey ex-pats headed in droves to warmer climates, with 124,584 moving to Florida and 29,803 moving to North Carolina. Others (42,459) moved to neighboring Pennsylvania.”
“That migration depleted the state’s tax coffers of an estimated $10 billion in personal income and $680 million in sales tax, according to the Rutgers report.”
With LESS coming IN, they will TAX whoever lives here MORE to make up the shortfall. As more people leave - the higher the taxes will be.
My neighbor has a beautiful house for sale - can’t sell it. They’re 40K BELOW ASSESSMENT and they can’t move it. People don’t want the TAX BILL - even with a BELOW ASSESSMENT SALE.
Not quite as bad as Cuba. Last I heard, 80% of Cubans wanted to move out of the country.
Maybe NJ should start letting the people pick their leaders rather than the Unions.
The sad thing is that most seem to be ending up down south.
Give NJ just alittle more time - it will be up to 80%.
Those that work their tushes off will be gone and Corzine and the rest of the clowns will have to find someone else subsidize those that WANT to be POOR and will NOT work.
And the other half are lying...
ping
Don't forget New Hampshire,a state which,last year,re-elected a RAT governor with about 75% of the vote and filled both its House seats with filthy,Kucinich-like fellow travelers.
Taxes is the reason. People move to the Carolinas in droves once they retire. Even within NJ I am finding that professionals are moving out of the better towns once their kids are out of school. Paying $13,000 a year property tax for the privilege of living in your house is just too much to bear.
Corzine has raised our sales tax to 7% from 6% and extended that tax to previously UNTAXED items.
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Well, we have 7% sales tax here in Allegheny County, PA, but only in this county...the other counties still pay 6%. A real crock.
I see all of our taxes increasing also and expanding. Here locally there is a move on to tax all poured drinks in bars and restaurants. There is always talk about some “dedicated funding” to take care of our always state transit system (i.e., another tax or higher taxes). We have Fast Eddie Rendell as our governor....his latest venture is a state health care plan, but like HIllary and everyone else with a health care plan, he doesn’t tell us how it will be paid for. Of course we know how it will be paid for — higher taxes, maybe even a few new taxes.
I have eight more years till I reach 62...then that’s it. I’m outta here. Just pray I stay healthy enough to make it, please.
Sounds like taxpayers are the ones wanting to leave. Makes you wonder who will pay for the gov't if these folks leave.
LOL - Similar to the unfair thought that went through my head after reading the headline. "Half of New Jersy Adults Want to Move Out of State", Oh great, so the rest of us have to suffer...
I think Corzine should make one of those bets with Granholm from Michigan, about which state will loose population faster in '08.
One of my friends and her spouse relocated to TX this past spring. Another friend has a sister who left for TX this summer. Three other friends are getting out as soon as the kids graduate high school, looking at NC. Still another is waiting for spouse to retire in less than five years. The state is breaking the backs of the everyday folks who live and work here.
The other half are the takers perhaps?
I'm shocked! Shocked the percentage is so low.
The federal government for a while and then the U.N.
It's not tough to see the agenda in the making...
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