Best State In America NJ!

Thank you Zyhan for such an excellent round. Also thank you for this debate as it has been fun and most entertaining. Now onto his case, i will be dealing with only those points he makes that link New Jersey to being the best state. Sadly all other examples that did not pertain only work as offense in my favor, those are: 1) We have the 7th lowest infant mortality rate we would be number one but as you mentioned several times New Jersey is largely populated. 2) We also ranked 8th in number of physicians/1000 3) We rank fourth in property crime and 13th in violent crime 4) 8th graduation rates. 5) New Jersey also has the fourth lowest student per teacher ratio 6) New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation For clarity that last point is actually a negative. Who honestly wants to spend more money to own property, not I and not many others. Continuing on, 7) Just the cost of living in New Jersey is expensive. Now for the examples that do link New Jersey. 1) Healthcare. Ranked number one under primary care physicians Now this might be a link to New Jersey being the best but from experience can we say that having the most of something means that the object is "the best? " No in fact New Jersey ranks 9th in healthcare overall, clearly not the best. [1] 2) Ranked Number one for high school Number one how? Highest quality high schools? Because that is not true. New Jersey is 4th overall in that aspect, not first. [2] 3) New Jersey has the fastest roller-coaster in the US Kingda Ka. " This is true, yet does being the fastest make it the best? No, in fact Kingda Ka does not even make the list(among steel coasters even so the playing field was reduced as wooden coasters werent counted. [3] 4) New Jersey has Atlantic City Which is a casino town more or less, I think Las Vegas takes the cake for the best casino town. Now my peer yet again makes the mistake of listing reasons that are either: Reasons why other states are better, or activities that you can experience in other states. 1) Geographic Diversity as I mentioned in round two. We got nice beaches awesome ski resorts in New Jersey as well as many great malls for shopping. 2) If we want to leave and head to New York City or a different shore like Ocean city Maryland its in our back yard. Even many more ski resorts. 3) New Jersey has the best entertainment. 4) We got many sports teams 5) Thanks to New Jerseys geographical location we could also see Broadway shows, Yankee games , Knicks games, rangers you name it by leaving our backyard. As I have once more fully refuted my peers case, this means he ultimately has failed to meet burden of proof. The tally for reasons why New Jersey is the best, and reasons why not stands as this, Best- 0 Not Best- 37(rough estimate) As such this vote must be voted in favor of Con by default. My own original case(Con. 1 & 2) is entirely irrevelant to the debate as the affirmative has not made a case at all. While every reason he uses is turned and works as a reason why New Jersey is not the best. On a final note, thank you again Zyhan for starting this devate. New Jersey is a good place to live and even visit I will say that much. But to proclaim it the best is far from rational or reasonable.