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Here’s a cautionary tale emanating from New Jersey (state motto: Just Like new York, Without The Charm):
And speaking of do-gooder government, I should point out that this would be precisely what would happen in a scenario where both the executive and legislative bodies were Democrat (as in New Jersey) were to run the federal government.
In case that’s too oblique a reference, let me spell it out: if we have both a Democrat President and a Democrat-controlled Congress, we’d end up like New Jersey, only without the escape valve that easy emigration affords the luckless (and clueless) folks from Joizee.
You know, I’m always taking stick for posting so many articles about how Britain is screwing things up. Well, under the dictionary entry of “high taxes (especially on “the rich"), anti-business, woeful feel-good social policy, high numbers of state employees, gun control” you’ll find… Britain.
Up until now, that British foolishness has been confined to liberal hellholes like California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey (which also get a dictionary entry under “Circles of Hell").
At all costs, we should prevent the chance of liberal foolishness from reaching national levels. I don’t know how to put it any plainer than that.
Jersey’s decline has been rapid and astonishing. Back in the 1960s, one study judged it among the country’s ten most business-friendly states because of its light tax burden, which allowed it to attract a steady stream of businesses and residents from New York. Though there were occasionally signs of trouble over the years—like the pension shenanigans of Governor Christie Whitman, in which government shirked its long-term obligations—the state’s real decline started with the election of Jim McGreevey and a Democratic-controlled legislature in 2001.
In the middle of a recession, McGreevey and the legislature raised taxes and fees an astonishing 33 times to raise $3.6 billion. The state also passed a heap of labor-friendly, antibusiness laws that rapidly worsened conditions.
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In 2002, the Beacon Hill Institute rated Jersey 26th among the states in overall competitiveness, but by 2004 Jersey had plummeted to 44th, the largest decline of any state, noted the institute, which also ranked Jersey’s government performance next to last among the states—in case you were wondering what prompted the decline.
Let’s see: high taxes (especially on “the rich"), anti-business, woeful feel-good social policy, high numbers of state employees, gun control… it’s a textbook case for what happens when do-gooder government swells and grows under a socialist-leaning power elite.In the middle of a recession, McGreevey and the legislature raised taxes and fees an astonishing 33 times to raise $3.6 billion. The state also passed a heap of labor-friendly, antibusiness laws that rapidly worsened conditions.
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In 2002, the Beacon Hill Institute rated Jersey 26th among the states in overall competitiveness, but by 2004 Jersey had plummeted to 44th, the largest decline of any state, noted the institute, which also ranked Jersey’s government performance next to last among the states—in case you were wondering what prompted the decline.
And speaking of do-gooder government, I should point out that this would be precisely what would happen in a scenario where both the executive and legislative bodies were Democrat (as in New Jersey) were to run the federal government.
In case that’s too oblique a reference, let me spell it out: if we have both a Democrat President and a Democrat-controlled Congress, we’d end up like New Jersey, only without the escape valve that easy emigration affords the luckless (and clueless) folks from Joizee.
You know, I’m always taking stick for posting so many articles about how Britain is screwing things up. Well, under the dictionary entry of “high taxes (especially on “the rich"), anti-business, woeful feel-good social policy, high numbers of state employees, gun control” you’ll find… Britain.
Up until now, that British foolishness has been confined to liberal hellholes like California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Jersey (which also get a dictionary entry under “Circles of Hell").
At all costs, we should prevent the chance of liberal foolishness from reaching national levels. I don’t know how to put it any plainer than that.
