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Data surveys compiled by think tanks and corporations have long shaped New Jersey s political discourse, and, to some degree, its policy.
The Allied Van Lines National Migration study, which tracks the number of people who hired the company s vans to move out of state, is an annual public relations stunt that has played into the hands of critics of Gov. Phil Murphy s efforts to raise taxes on millionaires. Last September, on his third try, he finally succeeded.
Critics argued that New Jersey s ignominious distinction as the state with the largest number of outward- bound moving vans 70% of 2020 s moving-van traffic left the state was indisputable proof that higher taxes was spurring an exodus to friendlier tax states.