By Thomas J. Healey It’s easy for New Jersey taxpayers to feel positive about their government’s financial condition. First full pension payment made in over 20 years. Record performance by the public retirement system’s stock portfolio. But a new report by Truth in Accounting (TIA), a nonprofit think tank that analyzes government financial reporting, paints a startlingly different picture. New Jersey finds itself in the embarrassing position of dead last in the “Financial State of the States” report from Truth in Accounting (TIA). More specifically, a comprehensive study of the state’s financ…