Maryland and Pennsylvania sales tax is 6%. New Jersey is now 6.875%. So raising NJ sales tax makes customers shop outside this Small State all the more.
DOH!
Delaware is zero. Many from SJ and South eastern Pa shop big items in Delaware
Its still way below Canada’s combined federal and provincial sales tax - even with the hike.
I move to California in 1973. The state sales tax was 3%! Santa Clara County charged an extra 0.25% “BART Tax” to bring BART to the county. That extra 1/4 percent was collected for decades. Did BART ever arrive? Of course not. Where did the collected money go? Anybody’s guess.
45 years later, our state sales tax is very close to 10%.
People have been absolutely RAPED by slowly and steadily increased sales taxes. They do it slow slowly the frogs never notice. An eighth of a point for this, a quarter point for that, a full half percent for this special thing. Year after year after year after year. The argument is always the same — “it’s only another 1/4 percent. It’ll cost the average schlub only $X per year. Would you deny XYZ for only $X per year?” Next thing you know, you’re paying ten cents on every dollar spent.