Chris Christie: NH Beats NJ on This [VIDEO]

Just how many degrees of separation are there between New Jersey and New Hampshire?

Chris Christie–the big, tough-talking Republican governor of New Jersey–thinks the two states will have more of a kindred spirit if Granite Staters elect GOP gubernatorial hopeful Ovide Lamontagne on Nov. 6.

But he emphatically gives New Hampshire head-of-the-class status on one score: Lack of a state income tax

Christie jetted into New Hampshire on Tuesday to help Lamontagne raise some campaign cash–and some attention. Along the way, the man once considered a contender for Mitt Romney's vice presidential choice jabbed away at President Obama.

Christie talked mostly about Lamontagne and Lamontagne's rival, Democrat Maggie Hassan. Though Hassan has taken "the pledge," vowing to veto an income tax if elected governor, Christie repeatedly claimed the Democrat harbored a secret plan to enact one.

"If you allow government to get into the door of a new tax on you, get ready," Christie said Tuesday to workers at Atrium Medical in Hudson, "because government is never-ending in terms of its hunger for your money."

Christie traveled back 35 years, when New Jersey didn't have an income tax, but adopted one under the premise that all of the money raised would go to property tax relief.

"Thirty-five years later... we still have the highest property taxes in America and our top income tax rate is now 9 percent," Christie said.

He called the decision on income taxes in New Hampshire "fundamental" for the economic future of the state.

"We literally had a jobless decade in New Jersey because we raised taxes," Christie said.

Lamontagne said he is running for governor because he believes in the "New Hampshire Advantage," a competitive business edge attributed to the state's lack of a sales or income tax.

"The choice is going to be stark in this race because the other candidate running on the Democratic side has stood for 99 tax and fee increases in the time she served in the state Senate," Lamontagne said in reference to Hassan.

Lamontagne went on to tell the employees that Atrium Medical is an "important ambassador" in New Hampshire to show that companies can succeed in the state.

"The jobs you create here is what our children want and deserve," he said.