Taxpayers must not bail out criminal enterprises, which is what the politician and mob union deals are all about.
Surprisingly, the mob is the least of New Jersey's problems. The majority of the cases that "Soprano State" relates are those of public "servants" double-, triple-, and quadruple-dipping along with the ridiculously over-inflated pension plans.
A local politician can have a job with the state government, be a local politician, and have a state appointment to another role -- all at the same time -- and get three separate FULL lifetime pensions from those positions upon stepping down, sometimes after only a year or two in office.