Outsource N.J. government to another state

The more I hear about state legislators' efforts to reduce property taxes, the more I think we should just outsource the whole state government to another state, where the legislators get it right. Or at least, where they get it better. That would open it up to 49 other states.

One of the latest songs they're tap dancing to is possibly allowing municipalities to establish local sales tax. Of course, they won't commit to cutting the state sales tax, which is already at the top of the charts. And while municipalities would set up local sales taxes to bring in more money, do you think it'll cut your tax bill? Probably not, or at least not for long. Then they'll put the flip side of their album, "Spend, spend, spend" on with their crooning to the classic: "We can't control the rapidly rising fixed costs of salaries and benefits."

In the end, we'll only be paying more. Which is why I think we need to turn it over to another state's legislators. Ours can't face the real music - that their spending habits are the problem.