zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Part of it comes back. NY has a much higher median income. If you roughly math out their 3K higher median income over 20M people (NY is even higher though when you median household income 4+person households, I'm not here doign math though) that makes about 60 billion in the difference. That's a healthy chunk.
I'm not saying either side is right. I"ve lived on both sides of it and see benefits for both. There were a ton of great things about living in NJ that high property taxes and sales tax paid for. And there are some niceties about living in NH where the property taxes are lower and the only tax is on room and meals.(though that tax is much higher than NJ sales tax) but there are services I'm not getting that I would get down there. Also in NH vehicle registration fees are fucking absurd. Cost me 700 bucks to register my new car. And that's frustrating at times between a chunk of my savings going to paying for waste removal (about 60 a month) and having basically no easy way of dealing with hazardous waste removal while in NJ there was like one a month or something like that.
