As noted earlier today, the Philadelphia Inquirer endorsed Jon Corzine for another term as New Jersey’s governor. While the paper is printed in Philadelphia, a significant chunk of its circulation area is across the Delaware River in New Jersey.

One of my readers in the area observes that Corzine and other Democrats have helped Pennsylvania by moving jobs from New Jersey into its western neighbor. The Garden State’s highest marginal income-tax rate is 10.75 percent, while Pennsylvania’s highest marginal tax rate is only 3.07 percent.

And people are voting with their feet: “New Jersey has had a net outflow of residents every year for the past 10 years. In the last 6 years alone, a net 300,000 people have left the Garden State with another 100,000 expected to flee in 2009.” A decent number of those hundreds of thousands, and all of that income, probably went to Pennsylvania.

Jon Corzine earned that endorsement; he’s done a lot for Pennsylvania’s economy these past four years . . .

UPDATE: And the same goes for New York, as the Times just endorsed Corzine.