Connecticut’s
budget year is upon us. Connecticut Taxpayers are used to the usual
rhetoric spewed by Ned Lamont, his consulting groups, his hedge fund and the
Democrat controlled state legislature. The rhetoric is new and higher
taxes, new and or higher “user” fees, cuts to programs that impact
people most in need such those with disabilities and the elderly, and
once again for “tolls”. If one goes back and looks at the last thirty
years of Connecticut’s budgets one will see a massive increase in state
spending, a massive amount of programs placed “off budget” to hide
them, massive increases in taxes, new taxes, and new and higher user
fees. 2021 starts the same as it has since 1991. Connecticut is
running a massive budget deficit this year anywhere from $2 to $3
billion dollars and we will probably see new and or higher taxes and
tolls as being the only way to solve this deficit. Sound familiar? It
should because it is what Connecticut Taxpayers have heard for the past
thirty years from their government. These "new" taxes were going to solve all the revenue problems
of the state from the fairness of a state income tax, to a secret gross
earning tax on gasoline, to a $250 tax to file a piece of paper to the
Secretary of State’s office to state that you are still in business, to a
tax on every can of paint you buy, a tax of every plastic bag you use
for your groceries, a tax to be placed in a supposed fund to pay for
people for family leave in 2022, a tax on your car registration to get
into state parks whether you use them or not, etc. This list of taxes
and user fees is endless in Connecticut and to me is the result of out
of control state spending that has shown little if any positive economic
results for either businesses or citizens of the state while at the
same time running up an insurmountable $150 billion dollars in short and
long term debt along with unfunded liabilities. Why is this lost on
our elected officials?
Connecticut’s elected
officials need to get a handle on spending. The amount of money that is
wasted on a state level is enormous. I would love to hear a brave
state legislator from either party introduce a bill for a full forensic
audit of all of the state’s assets, liabilities and spending. I would
enjoy bills introduced in the State House and Senate to decrease state
spending on political patronage jobs, programs that have failed the
state economically and an across the board cut in all state agencies
budgets. Start taking action on the economic crisis that this state has
had to live through since 1991. Start respecting Connecticut Taxpayers
and not use them as their personal bank accounts to gain wealth and
power. Start demanding economic efficiencies from each state agency to
cut spending. Force any state agency that must deal with the public to
become consumer friendly and courteous to the Connecticut Taxpayers they
are dealing with.
Ned Lamont, his consulting
groups, his hedge fund and the Democrat controlled state legislature
should admit once and for all that the state has serious economic issues
and a state spending problem. Instead,
Connecticut Taxpayers must deal with and live with a constant budget mess. Thirty years of this is enough-don’t you think?
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