> People in the Chattanooga area are just minutes from Georgia. There are also people like us who are going down there anyway, so it's a good time to stock up on stuff. Our sales tax varies from about 9 to 9.3 cents on the dollar with hardly anything exempt. In Georgia, it's less than five and some items tax free. You can save several dollars on a medium-sized order of groceries.

It sounds like the solution is for your state to lower its sales taxes, or at least allow greater local control so that those counties on the border could set lower tax rates.

Stephen