DE Joint Finance Committee - a look into Tuesday's Meeting
- Sussex County Republican Committee
- 6 hours ago
- 1 min read
February 3, 2026
Directly from Tuesday's Joint Finance Committee.
-9.7% - Corporate Income Tax (DExit)
2% - Realty Transfer Tax (High foreclosure/low sales)
The highest growth other than dividends and interest?
The revenue our State collects from your paycheck.
Meanwhile we draw our attention to the line graph demonstrating in the clearest view how the last three years have been anything but responsible budgets as our spending outpaced our revenue.
This is why even a "modest" 4.99% budget increase should be scrutinized and not applauded. But alas it is an election year so surely promised positions need to be accounted for with the overall $166mil budgeted Personnel Salary/Position Increase.
In the private sector, if a company or department does not perform there is no raise. Imagine if the public sector operated the same.
