Posted by
Ed Lilly on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:01:59 AM
Lower property and income taxes? Check. Lower cost of housing? Check. Visited by the Chicago Cubs for at least 3 games each season? Check.
I told my lovely wife when we moved to her native state of New Jersey 5 years ago that I did not want to go through the hassles of relocation again. Since telling her that, the elected yahoos and bureaucratic dim bulbs in this state have done nearly everything in their power to get me to rethink my position.
Just in the past few weeks, we've been treated to: (1) having the death penalty removed from the books, despite wide popular support for retaining it; (2) being told that our votes in the presidential campaigns won't matter because the state's elected officials have decided in their infinite wisdom that they know better than the Founding Fathers and New Jersey's electoral college votes will go to whatever candidate wins the national popular vote (I'm so glad that my already worthless presidential vote will now officially become subservient to the wishes of those in California, New York, Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida); and (3) an official apology from the State of New Jersey for slavery, undoubtedly setting up the taxpayers who were never asked about an apology to make massive payments in reparations for slavery that ended over 100 years before they were born.
Makes me wonder if there are any Lakota Indians anwhere in Mercer County so that perhaps they can declare a separate, tax free country here in Lawrenceville so that we can somehow abandon New Jersey but still not have to move.