-> A barely-solvent transportation trust fund for maintaining state roadways/structures, which the governor/legislature recently decided to raise the gas by a whopping 23 cents/gallon to prop up
-> state (and in some cases county/local) politicians whom are more interested in enriching themselves and passing more useless/borderline unconstitutional laws than fixing the existing issues with running this state
-> an unrealistic, and massively underfunded, pension system for public employees
-> a broken Abbott school district system, where the state contributes insane levels of funding to schools that either no longer need it, or are in need of major structural/cultural reform in order to prevent flat-out waste of the funding
-> an alarming exodus of tax revenue-generating pharmaceutical, gaming, manufacturing and other major high-level industry players to other states
-> a dangerous political spat between the NY and NJ governors, through the interstate Port Authority agency, which has been delaying the critical rebuild and/or repair of both the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Northeast Corridor under-Hudson River rail tunnels, which are already at/over capacity and whose inevitably-approaching end of service (and then structural) life can not only make commuting for hundreds of thousands of NJ residents almost impossible, but also potentially paralyze a busy region which contributed to approximately 10% of the nations economic GDP
-> a several-year trend of population loss (more people leaving than joining the tax base), due in no small part to the above as well as the noted high property taxes
