Is it true that sales tax rates are lower in border states prompting many Pennsylvanians to shop out of state?
• No, it is not true that sales tax rates are lower in states that border Pennsylvania. Most every border state has sales tax rates already above 6%. For example, some counties in New York have rates as high as 9.75%. In addition, most of the border states also tax a wider range of goods and services or in the case of Delaware, rely on a gross receipts tax on good and services. Sales tax (SUT) shifts the burden, probably to businesses and those earning money, and inhibits investment in new businesses which create jobs, which produce the goods and provide the services we need, and which generate the revenue to finance necessary government services. Would centralizing the education bureaucracy then be counter-productive? The sales tax would be crushing, something like 23% and will fall on the same people the property tax does now. The productive people, especially young people looking for jobs, will leave the state as they are now doing and businesses, jobs, products and services will de
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