Everything That Is Bad Is Good In Connecticut

 

In Connecticut anything that may be considered bad is somehow good. 

In this past horrific Legislative session we have seen a great deal of bad sugarcoated as good.

A session marked little to no public comment by Connecticut Taxpayers on bills brought up, an unread budget “implementer” that raised taxes and with several alcohol impaired legislators voting on bills and laws.  This past horrific Legislative session shows Connecticut Taxpayers how further in decline both economically and socially we have progressed as a state.  A state that continues to lag behind the rest of the United States in income growth, job creation and new business development.  A state that ranks last in many economic categories such some of the highest taxes in the country, illogical business regulations and an infrastructure that is collapsing.

We now have online gambling that is legal and taxed to help pay for the enormous salaries, benefits and pensions that we pay to our state elite ruling class.  Those who least can afford it will now gamble even more and waste even more of their money.  Doesn’t Connecticut have enough gambling already from tribal casinos, off track betting, thousands of scratch off tickets (with many losing tickets that litter our roads and properties), and roughly seven daily numbers games?  Isn’t the state receiving enough revenues from the gambling that is already taxed to help pay for the enormous salaries, benefits and pensions that we pay to our state elite ruling class?

We now have legalized marijuana by decree in a 270 page bill approved by corporate marijuana companies that apparently and somehow creates “new” jobs and “new” businesses for socially disadvantaged groups in the same areas that crime and drug abuse are rampant.  However for the new taxation that the state receives we should see a massive increase in crime and drug abuse.  

Doesn’t Connecticut already have a massive drug problem with deaths and overdoses occurring on a day to day basis?  Why do we want to create new and younger drug addicts through clever marketing ads and schemes?  Isn’t there enough crime in Connecticut already?  I did not see any legislation helping to reduce crime this session just more elimination of past crimes on criminals records and less legal law enforcement taking place.  And I found it very ironic that Ned Lamont wants to ban favored vaping items (like this is going to solve any problems in the state) but legalize marijuana.  And what is the actual involvement in these new legal marijuana companies by the Lamont’s hedge fund?  How much profit will they make? Will that be disclosed?  Of course not.

A tobacco company has decided recently to move into Connecticut and will create 200 jobs.  You heard me right 200 jobs!  Connecticut has lost over 100,000 jobs over the past few years and it will be years once again before the state recovers  This relocation is hailed by Ned Lamont and the Connecticut Democrat Party as yet another economic cure all for our depressed economy.  There was nothing in this past Legislative session that shows any Connecticut Taxpayer that anything is being done for our economy except raising taxes to pay for the enormous salaries, benefits and pensions that we pay to our state elite ruling class.  Why is that?

So this is what Connecticut Taxpayers get for a $23 Billion dollar budget, a budget that is spent mainly on salaries, benefits and pensions of state union and management employees, no bid state contracts to the politically connected along with ever increasing state debt interest payments.  I guess you need to be excited about it.  Because in Connecticut everything that is bad is good.  Everything good and or healthy is bad.  And Connecticut Taxpayers must continue to pay for economic debacle called government.  A sham government that really should be completely de-funded once and for all.  History does repeat itself.  Is this 1776 again?