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This has all sorts of distorting effects. It turns out that one guy was paying a substantial fraction of New Jersey's budget, and he moved. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer...

(then ended moving back again, because Florida)



Note that it put the income tax forecast at risk.

The individual taxpayer was paying ~hundreds of millions per year into an $86 billion dollar budget. It's kind of wild that an individual would be paying a tenth of a percent (or so) of a state's income taxes, but it's maybe not a substantial fraction.


Not that surprising when you have a progressive tax system and people who make tons of money.


New Jersey certainly has had budget issues and pension issues. But the current leadership has done fairly well with a budget suppress and continuing to fund the pension system. So as of now the loss of the single taxpayer while a loss to the budget hasn’t put a huge hole in the system. Obviously fully funding the pension after years of under funding will take time so we will see how it turns out.




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