Then let NY and NJ pay their own unemployment and welfare costs for those remaining unemployed by their metrics that their experts have agreed on in their infinite wisdom.
Those of us in the other parts of the country don't want to support and pay for that.
We don't want to bail out their social democracy experiment in corruption, or their government employees bankrupt pension plan, or any other part of their mess.
Unemployment benefits come from money withheld from an individual's paycheck. About 6% of your paycheck is taken and withheld by your employer to pay for your unemployment benefits in case you need them. Its not the country or anyone else paying for it besides the individual. Same concept as taking a % of your paycheck and putting it on top of a jar above the fridge, except its forced and possibly invested to earn them money.