Our Governor is proposing a budget that is a matter of, and I quote, “shared sacrifice.” He says that to deal with our $395 million state deficit, we all must sacrifice more money in tax dollars and services. If all were fair, and our state tax codes were fair tax codes, maybe it would be a shared sacrifice. However, in our state, that is just not the case. So what is really happening here is not a “shared sacrifice;” despite what Governor Carney calls it. Rather, it continues a tax code benefiting very wealthy people in our state, while balancing a gross deficit on the backs of hard-working middle-class families, many of whom have sacrificed enough for this state, and are barely making it now. Meanwhile, people making millions of dollars per year pay comparatively very little in state taxes. This is unacceptable, but it is fact. Some of the wealthiest families in the region live here in Delaware, but you wouldn’t know it if you walked down the streets of many of our cities. Some of the largest corporations in the country claim residency in our state, but you would never know that, either.
