Why is New Jersey losing businesses and people? You might have seen in the newspaper or on the internet that Mercedes-Benz USA is leaving Bergen County for the Atlanta Georgia area. A number of factors have caused them to decide to move down South and unfortunately they are not the only company that is moving out of New Jersey.Continue reading Why is New Jersey losing businesses and people?→
I recently noticed that more and more House For Sale signs are going up and that many who had moved in only a year ago or less are already putting up their homes for sale. What is happening? My guess is that people are fed up with all the taxes, be it the high property taxes or the so-called non-tax items like the raising of fees that are being proposed in the legislature.
Are we the people of New Jersey just seen as a source of revenue by the legislature? We should be seen as the people who they represent and do our bidding. In this case most of us want the high cost of taxes, including fees, to be reduced. Our representatives should be looking into cutting costs across the board. The system is broken right now and needs to be fixed or it will fail those who it serves. Without an adequate and fair system of taxation this state will slowly die off. The people coming in are not in the same income bracket as those who have elected to leave and can not afford to pay the same high level of taxes as those that have leaving. It seems that some of those elected officials do not see this reality, but only envision an electorate that they can keep milking without let up.
