New Jersey is among the least generous states in exempting working poor from income tax.
Indeed, of the 42 states with an income tax, only four make families of four with lower incomes than our threshold pay. Nothing has happened yet, and maybe that's a good thing. It gives us time to realize that we could do much better. The best we could say is that we'd be among the most generous of the least generous states. Presumably, we would rely on budget surpluses in good times and rob from other programs in bad times.