We Cannot Simply Accept That CMCo. Is a Move-Out County and NJ Is A Move-Out State

The taxpaying public knows that there are more efficient ways to perform some public services than via governmental structures. In the private sector, if someone sees a better or cheaper way to build a mouse trap, he does so and puts his or her product on the shelf for the consumer to consider for purchase; if it is better or cheaper, over time, that product succeeds over the inferior and/or more expensive one.
For that reason, we have phones (actually computers) in our pockets instead of the party-line phone my family had as a child, tethered to a fixed location, and only available if another family member or a neighbor sharing the party line wasn’t using it.
We have cars which are safer, handle better, and are more comfortable, efficient, and reliable; large-screen color televisions instead of small black-and-white tubes, to name but three of thousands of ever-improving products we enjoy. The reason for the difference is competition; for most products, if they are not better five years from now, they are toast. Unlike the private sector, government doesn’t have to compete to survive…so it typically doesn’t. 
For many goods and services, the private sector is the obvious choice and should be used when services to the public can be provided better, faster and cheaper. A case in point is our national air-traffic control system. Our country has been trying for decades to update this system, and may now be on the cusp of actually doing so. In the structure currently under consideration, some of the functions would remain governmental in nature, and some would not. A Wall Street Journal Oct. 12, 2017, editorial noted the proposed system would provide significant improvements, with a non-profit entity consisting of pilots, airlines, controllers and industry experts managing air-traffic operations and the Federal Aviation Administration overseeing safety.
Per the Journal, “This arrangement has allowed Canada to lower levies by about one-third and manage routes and landings more efficiently. The Journal recommends that Republicans “seize the moment because they have a President who wants reform as part of his infrastructure upgrade. … (However) The biggest hurdle may be convincing (government) appropriators to relinquish control over billions in air-travel tax revenue they now redistribute.”
There are two pieces of good news here for us both as people who fly on planes and as taxpayers. The “new air-traffic entity would reduce the number of federal employees by more than 30,000 and federal spending by billions of dollars. The perception that the government has become too large even to know what it manages is one reason voters gambled on Donald Trump. Modernizing the human misery known as U.S. air travel should be a bipartisan win.”
No one can blame those 30,000 employees for wanting to hold onto their jobs. But think of this: This is only one service of the myriad services provided to us by government, and in this one service alone, we have identified 30,000 jobs that the taxpayers don’t need to be funding.
Now, may I shift gears and ask, can we bring this type of tax savings home to New Jersey? We have become a move-out state because, for too many people, their incomes are insufficient to pay the tax bills our outdated and inefficient governmental structures require.  Further, high taxes and falling population not only drives out our industries but makes us unattractive to new companies looking to expand.
There is an adage which states, Recognition of a problem is half the solution. We are smart, applied people; we’ll work through this issue just as we have the other issues we’ve faced in the past; we did not become one of America’s richest states by being irresponsible.