If you people in NJ, MD and PA have a problem with DE toll bridges then...

[LynneSin]

why the hell can't I ever find parking at any mall and/or store in Delaware.

Oh that's right - DELAWARE HAS NO FUCKING SALES TAX

So you'll bitch about our toll roads but still come to DE because you want to save 5%(MD), 6%(PA although Philly is 7%) and what is it in NJ 7%? 8%?

Add to the fact that our smokes & booze is cheaper anywhere in the area.

Well doesn't Delaware deserve to make some money back since you're taking advantage of our no sales tax?

[redqueen]

1. That does make sense...

but wouldn't a toll-road tax be more regressive than a sales tax?

:shrug:


edit: spelling. need more coffee

[LynneSin]

2. I didn't make the state tax laws

But I figured I not only have no sales tax (and pretty cheap property taxes) BUT I know how to get around the tolls.

So I have the best of both worlds

[LostinVA]

3. It's cheaper to just shop in the 3% sales tax parts of NJ than pay Delaware tolls

[LynneSin]

4. Sweetie - you live in North Jersey, you'd ahve to pay all those NJ tolls to get to DE

And the gas alone wouldn't make any sense.

And btw, last time I checked 0 is still less than 3

But I adore you anyways

[lost-in-nj]

6. I don't pay tax on clothes or food...

Do you up there off Rt. 80
and there are no tolls on the road to my mall....

:shrug: :shrug:



lost

[LostinVA]

7. Yeah, I don't have to pay tolls to get anywhere I need to go

[LynneSin]

8. Actually I think it's only Maryland that taxes clothing

They are 5% but it's on everything.

[ElizabethDC]

11. We have taxes on clothing in FL

it's 7% sales tax on everything. But no state income taxes.

[madinmaryland]

14. CT taxes clothing over $75. New york taxes everything.

NYC is 8.5%

:wow:

[lost-in-nj]

23. NY taxes clothes

thats why they come here to NJ....



lost

[madinmaryland]

5. Any savings would be wiped out by gas and tolls, so no its not

me in your parking lots!

[Pithlet]

10. When I lived in Maryland, I didn't know anyone who went to Deleware to shop.

I'd never done it, either. If we ever bothered to take shopping trips to save on tax, it was usually to Pennsylvania, because thy don't tax clothing. I'd never done it, but I knew people who had, and they usually lived near the PA border to begin with.

[deepthought42]

9. Despite only living 2 mi from the Bay Bridge...

it ain't me! :P

Perhaps because I live 2 miles from the bay bridge...I've seen the beach traffic!

that and...why would I drive to DE? ;) :hide:

[lost-in-nj]

24. I went to Annapolis for the power boat show

right after the hurricane a few years ago
what a beautiful waterfront....
but WHY are there so many Irish bars????

lost

[deepthought42]

26. We are a drinking town w/a sailing problem.

;)

:rofl: :toast:

You went to downtown Annapolis for a boat show? You're brave; I steer clear of that area when the boat show is in town! No parking whatsoever...

[philosophie_en_rose]

12. So? Oregon has no sales tax and Washington has no income tax.

Delaware can kiss the Vancouver-Portland area's ass. :)

We don't need no stinking toll roads here.

[meegbear]

13. WOW! Another Delaware fun fact!

Your state reeks with them!

[JVS]

15. No. In fact the reason other people buy stuff there is because they deserve to get something back..

from the predatory toll policies of DE, which fund everything for the people inside the state mostly with the money of people who are unfortunate enough to have to pass through the state. And that you have the gall to complain about what is essentially having a more thriving economy from it all just shows how spoiled you are. If things were just, Delaware would have to pay reparations to the states whose sales it leaches off.

[LynneSin]

19. Hey! Why are you smacking me - New Jersey has way more tolls than we do

:grr:

They're like #2 on the list of tolled states (behind California)

[JVS]

21. Yeah but you see, in Jersey you actually go some distance for the money

[jobycom]

16. So Delaware is a great state for drunken, smoking cheapskates who don't own cars?

Sounds like Mississippi.

[madinmaryland]

17. ..

:popcorn:

[jobycom]

20. Hey, I'm from Mississippi, I can say that!

Heck, I was describing some of my family.

[GalleryGod]

18. How many times in the past 5 years have you posted this Subject??

Sheesh! You're such a much better person than THIS discourse

Join a campaign, Lynne....for STARTERS. Pick somebody.

Love Ya':loveya:
G.G.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

22. NJ = no tax on clothes, right? I'd just assume shop there.

New York taxes everything though - ughhhh. %8 death.

[Tektonik]

25. places in CA tax everything that's not food

just the tax differs from county to county

LA has an 8.25% sales tax, SD 7.75%. Oh and we tax soft drinks/booze/cigs/gas