Something’s wrong when you have the highest property taxes in the country. And something is really wrong when even a mayor can’t afford them in his own town.

Welcome to the Garden State. For such is exactly the predicament the mayor of Egg Harbor Township, James “Sonny” McCullough, now finds himself in.

Mayor McCullough and his wife, Georgene, built their home back in 1985. Thanks to last year’s township-wide reassessment, his home is now valued at $1.1 million. Because of the high rates, that translates into a property tax bill of $31,056 — a nearly 60 percent jump in what the McCulloughs had been paying.

“It’s kind of disappointing,” McCullough told The Press of Atlantic City. “I thought I would be able to live and die in my home, but it’s gotten to the point where it’s gotten up so high.” He’s not alone: While no properties in his waterfront neighborhood traded hands last year, five have come on the market since the reassessment.

Chris Christie gets that New Jersey’s sky-high property taxes make life difficult for the state’s residents and are a big turnoff for people coming in. Since he became governor, the state has put in a property-tax cap that’s slowing down increases. But he knows the rates are still too darn high.

“You can’t stop a train that’s going 100 miles per hour in one movement,” he said. And the governor puts the blame for his state’s high property taxes right where it belongs: on benefits for public-sector employees that are simply unaffordable.

It’s a sad day when taxes price any man out of his own home. But when that man’s home is in New Jersey, what did you expect?