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Old 03-02-2015, 06:57 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by spacemanspif View Post
Gas is $2.35 here in Delaware. One day at the very bottom it was $2.01; none of the gas stations ever dropped below $2.00...Instead the "people in charge" decided that they could temporarily increase the gas tax to help the state and that it would be ok because people's budgets had already "absorbed" the higher gas prices. So instead of giving everyone a break, taxes were increased to keep everyone paying more while the government raked in the extra cash.


One nice thing about Delaware, in Va the meals tax at some local restaurants is 13.5%. In Delaware it's 0, also no sales tax, which is 5.5% in Va.

Thats 22.5% for Va and 0 for Delaware.

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