Did you know that Delaware is “unfriendly” to business?
Delaware needs to improve its business climate. That may come as a surprise to DL readers. But, just look at this video created by a guy who inherited some grocery stores and a DuPont who inherited a bunch of money and property. They are experts on how to improve Delaware’s business climate.
Seriously. Watch it.
Guess what is killing the business climate in Delaware? It is unnamed “regulations” as usual. And this:
Zoe Callaway, a recent graduate of the University of Delaware, will serve as executive director. She told Delaware Business Times that the advocacy group will focus on fighting regulations and high-tax policies, including new income tax brackets and the real estate transfer tax
Oops…Zoe slipped up and told the truth right out of the gate. How did she get this job?
So….Two millionaires think that their taxes are too high, so they formed a “grassroots” organization. It would be funny if these dicks didn’t have undertaxed millions to throw at this little project. It would be down right hilarious on its face if we had enough guts in Leg Hall to laugh these rich bozos out of the state.
And for the record: The state with the lowest tax burden is Alaska at 5.1%. Delaware’s total tax burden isn’t much higher at 5.55%. The state of Tennessee has the third lowest tax burden at 6.28%.
Instead of trying to pauperize the state of Delaware, these Bozos have the means to move to New Jersey (9.86%), PA (8.58%), or Maryland (9.26%) and still “work” here.
For the record, Chris Kenny (apparently with a silver spoon stuck so far up it’s short-circuiting his conscience) and Ben DuPont ( claiming to be a hard-working average stiff who like Donald the “T” was able to develop that work ethic while luxuriating in some of the family inheritance) would endure incalculable harm to their personal circumstances and their abilities to help “GROW” Delaware’s economy if my HB 15 were passed in the GA. One can appreciate their concern when one realizes that an “individual” earning a half-million dollars in taxable income would have to scrape by to pay the additional $2500 a year in taxes that would result. I have met both individuals personally (Chris Kenny on many occasions formally and informally) and was never made aware of those dire circumstances he faced with such a burden. In fact the original Kenny family patriarch (of sorts) Uncle Rich, now retired, and I have shared many a cordial and genuinely friendly meetings and encounters. Often he expressed his sincere gratitude for my successful efforts to change the Gross Receipts formula so it could reflect more fairly on the high-gross low-profit margins that the Shoprite chain and other large retailers were previously enduring. Chris Kenny, on the other hand(out) often expressed his concern at even minimal increases in minimum wage and thought the training wage was a good business decision. I imagine it’s as “good” for business “profits” as you can get. I met Ben duPont at a WAWA in Dover and he approached me to personally thank me for my work and attitude toward my work as a legislator. Maybe he confused me with Mike Ramone, owner and proprietor of the highly profitable training program he personally created with his degradation of the minimum wage bill. I believe it is advertised as “Lifeguards Trained and Used on the Cheap”. Anyhow let’s refocus. Any individuals or entrepreneurs or flat out swindlers that climb between the “oily” sheets of the Caesar Rodney Institute with Rick Jensen, Stapleford, Legates and a host of other smarmy “Think Tankers” that subscribe to the Delaware Business Times (Crimes??) can and will threaten any progress necessary for wage fairness, health care accessibility, environmental and ecological justice, successful public education and a stable, honest and productive economy for Delaware. My advice to them is go elsewhere. You can afford to leave and most of the truly hard-working, honorable and honest Delawareans cannot and do not wish to.
Representative John Kowalko
You have to wonder why they don’t simply put aside the millions they intend to use to smear Democrats… I mean “educate voters about Delaware taxes” and use that money to pay their historically low taxes?
One thing that has bugged me recently was the paid-for? laying out of a News Journal scheme to support Ben duPont’s business Zip Code in their engaging in a series of at least five pro- Zip Code Op-Eds in the last month. Testimonials of success with the school came online over and over. Somewhere, there seemed some money must have been changing hands.
Benjamin F. duPont
Ben serves as a director of GigSky, Ecrio, Vorbeck, MSCI (NYSE:MSCI), Longwood Gardens, Zip Code Wilmington, and the Tower Hill School.
Employer: GigSky; Vorbeck; MSCI; Ecrio
Institution: Tufts University
Ben DuPont – Chartline Capital Partners
http://www.chartline.com › ben-dupont
The Caesar Rodney folks are so cute. They think “conservatism” is still about business-friendliness.
They’ve been pumping out this bullshit non-stop (I’m on their mailing list) throughout the Trump era. They’re about as influential as the American Legion.
Nancy:
On the ZipCodeWilmington op-eds, I wrote to the NJ’s “engagement editor” last month and said “It’s starting to look like you’ve got an agreement to run anything written by anyone remotely affiliated with the organization.”
His response:
“We’re experimenting with different styles for the op-ed page, and in this particular case we’re looking to see if there is reader interest in “op-ed series” on a particular topic. The idea is to have pieces on a similar topic all linked together to see if we could provide a “deeper” experience.
“We wanted to tackle the issue of cost of college/student debt from a different angle and thought ZipCode had a bunch of different perspectives on that (students, employers, parents, educators). The op-eds were mapped out in advance; the series has come to an end, other than I might possible write a piece tying all the thoughts together.
“We have received some feedback that things are getting a little repetitive and it sounds like you and some other readers are seeing it as more of an advertisement for Zip Code than engaging on the issues. So maybe we need to rethink the way we do this.”
I’m stunned that an editor, especially one with experience as an education reporter, would decide that the best place to go for opinions on college/student debt would be a short-term boot camp operation that postures itself as an alternative to earning a degree in computer science. Not criticizing ZipCodeWilmington here, since it appears to be successful in its niche, but students in debt, their parents, financial aid officers, financial planners and consumer advocates might have been far better choices to write these coumns.
Delaware is 100% business unfriendly!!!!
just ask:
Fisker – out of business
Bloom – nearly bankrupt
Astra Zeneca – all but gone from the delaware landscape
all of these business have been RUINED by the free money delaware has provided!!!! obviously delaware is doing its best to ruin businesses with its toxically tainted free money (oh yea, dupont too)
Good point.
Also, ask 95% of the fortune 500 companies that reside here. (They must be gluttons for poor treatment), and the tens of thousands of companies crammed into a few post office boxes on Orange Street. Delaware must be terrible forcing companies to share such cramped accommodations.
Funny how they always talk about bringing new people into the state, and never about investing in the people that are already here.