Oh yeah I know, those should be first to go. There’s like 30+ donut hole towns, and then on top of that there’s easily another 60+ small towns that are either surrounded on 3 sides by another town or sandwiched between two large towns.

Just look at a municipality map of NJ and look around for like 5 minutes. Easily can spot like 100 towns that should be annexed by another one. The majority of them have very few residents.

This was just a hypothetical though. Even if taxes don’t go down, they will absolutely be far better utilized since municipal services will be cheaper to operate, leaving a surplus to spend on other things.