The Connecticut Democrat Party's War On The Trucking Industry

 The Connecticut Democrat Party has declared war on the Trucking industry.  The war will help create more inflation for Connecticut Taxpayers in the future as the cost to deliver goods and services will skyrocket in the state.  Why are they picking on truckers who day in and day out deliver essential items to our state economy without ego nor fanfare?  Why are they so bad?

For those who have forgotten Connecticut Democrat Party HB6688 law of June 2021 becomes effective in 2023 that creates a Highway Use Fee  or truck tax of .025 to .175 cents per mile driven for all trucks in Connecticut and all for all trucks that pass through the state.  This cash grab by the Connecticut Democrat Party was signed into law by Ned Lamont as a way to fund highway/road repairs, etc. in the state.  We all know this tax will somehow find its way into the catch all general fund and be used for things other than transportation.  Who will pay this tax?  Connecticut taxpayers of course.  How do goods get delivered to businesses, stores and homes in the state?  Do the members of the state legislature deliver them by their personal cars?  Or is it by trucks? Where do all the taxes that are paid for by the trucking industry currently go?  Is it salaries, benefits and pensions of state unionized employees?  

Another new horrific law for the trucking industry is for California based implemented emissions laws to become effective with Democrat Party sponsored House Bill 5039 that according to the bill: 

"The bill authorizes the Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection (DEEP) to adopt regulations implementing California’s
medium- and heavy-duty motor vehicle standards and requires the
agency to amend these regulations whenever the California standards
change."

According to the CBIA (Connecticut Business Industry Association) (cbia.com) "California-compliant engines, which HB 5039 allows, could add $57,000 to Connecticut vehicle costs, based on estimates from the Engine Manufacturing Association."  Since when does Connecticut follow California rules and for what reason? Is Connecticut now part of California?  Who is going to pay the costs of these new vehicles?  Why would any trucking company want to do business in the state with this law?  What is the purpose of the new law, is it to satisfy California?  I am going to assume that the complete destruction of Connecticut's economy is the goal of the Connecticut Democrat Party which has apparently ceded control of the state to the California Democrat Party.

It is truly a shame how clueless the Connecticut Democrat Party led by Ned Lamont has become in their quest for a socialist/totalitarian form of government and total control over all Connecticut Businesses and Taxpayers.  The logic behind making trucking cost prohibitive in the state defies economic logic and common sense especially during the Democrat Party created runaway inflation that is happening today.  What is to be gained by forcing the trucking industry to incur these addition costs to benefit a California emissions law?  How is this legal?  The narrative never changes with the Connecticut Democrat Party.  They rule with an iron hand and lies.  Sadly all consumers in the state will pay greatly for these economically irrational laws that will help keep Connecticut last and or near last in all economic categories along with having the highest taxes in the country.  And again this is the platform they are running for re-election on in November.  And this is the platform that they are going down to defeat on election day.  Truckers have had enough.  Connecticut Taxpayers have had enough. It is 1776 again.

 

Maybe The Connecticut Democrat Party Is The Wrong Gender?

 It took me a while but I finally figured it out.  The reason why Connecticut has so many economic and domestic problems is that apparently most Connecticut Democrat Party elected officials are the wrong gender.  They were not given the opportunity when they were five or six years old as Connecticut children are today to change their gender without their parents permission.  If they were not legally aborted before they were born at full term by liberal abortion laws that do not protect the rights of the unborn-they must be the wrong sex.  After all we are supposed to understand and believe that boys should be girls and girls should be boys especially at age five years old as dictated by politically correct sex education for children.  Correct?  Connecticut could be leading the nation in all categories economically and socially if  for example Democrat/Communist United States Senator Richard Blumenthal was a woman instead of a man while Democrat/Communist United States Representative Rosa DeLauro was a man not a woman.  Connecticut could be leading the nation in all categories economically and socially if Geography expert United States Senator Chris Murphy was a woman instead of a man.  The same with Democrat Governor Ned Lamont. If he was a woman would his family's hedge fund made so many profits during his manufactured Covid-19 crisis?  I wonder?  It is such a simple solution to such a complex problem.

I can see Connecticut as a Utopia of all things great if all of our Democrat elected officials would have been the opposite sex than what they are now.  It is the same theory that they are trying to teach our children in public schools as to why they are apparently the wrong sex and why two plus two does equal five due to the incomprehensible and blatant racism that exists in mathematics in 2022.  It is the cure all for all of the same problems that have been created by the Democrat Party in America. Yet these solutions such as sex changes, laws abiding citizens being criminals and criminals being law abiding citizens somehow is making the state a cesspool of corruption, suicides, drug overdoses and crime.  Yet it all could have been alleviated if the genders of these officials were changed many years ago.  Am I right or am I wrong? 

Stupidity in government seems to be the norm in 2022.  It is simple to assume this. Lies seem to be truth and truth are now lies.  Two sexes male and female somehow do not fit the Democrat Party narrative as down is up and up is down.  Nothing really fits the Democrat Party narrative other than lies, lies, and more lies.  And the voters of Connecticut are somehow supposed to accept this narrative and the brain washing of their children with these false pretenses and deception.   This again is the agenda and platform that the Democrat Party is running on in 2022.  And it is the agenda and platform that they will be losing badly on come Election Day in 2022.  They still do not understand that it is 1776 again.  Voters have had enough of this garbage.

How High Taxes Ruined Connecticut's Economy

At some point Taxpayers run out of money.  At some point Taxpayers say no to new and higher taxes.  At some point Taxpayers vote with their wallets and pocketbooks rather than on false promises.  Especially false promises about lower taxes and or cuts in taxes.  Notice how there never seems to be discussions on the elimination of a tax or taxes.  Only a cut here and a cut there.  And only in an election year.

As we know Connecticut has an election coming up and there is a great discussion and movement towards cutting taxes.  Almost an urgency.  The Connecticut Taxpayer was thrown roughly a $3 dollar a week tax cut with the suspension of a twenty five cents per gallon gas tax for a few months.  Gasoline is still roughly double what is was before Democrat President Biden and his anti-American energy policies became effective.  Thus $3 a week really does not do much for Connecticut Taxpayers in the current economic debacle they are experiencing of Democrat induced runaway inflation.  And since the implementation of the Connecticut State Income Tax in 1991 new and continually increasing state taxes along with excessively high property taxes have helped to ruin the state economy to almost the point of no return.  The Connecticut State Income Tax along with the Connecticut State Budget has increased dramatically over the past 30 years.  Connecticut's short and long term debt along with unfunded liabilities have grown to roughly $150 billion dollars which partially represents a $62500 plus per Taxpayer debt tax if a tax was passed to try to pay this off.  Connecticut ranks last and or near last in most business friendly categories along with one of the highest taxed states in the country.  This situation has been developing since the implementation in 1991 of the Connecticut State Income Tax along with many new and higher taxes such as the secret gross earnings tax on gasoline, the Family Leave state income tax and sales taxes on mostly everything and anything in the state.  Also much higher business taxes have helped to make many state businesses move out of Connecticut for good never to return and or to create essential jobs for the state.  Thus Connecticut's State Government has to pick winners and losers to entice new businesses to move in and create short term jobs that usually end rather quickly when Connecticut Taxpayers subsidies end or when the new companies go broke trying to operate in the state.  

High taxes have ruined Connecticut's economy in my opinion.  Tax upon tax that has been embraced by the years of Connecticut Democrat Party rule have helped many citizens and businesses to make a clear decision to move out of the state never to return.  High taxes have helped to nurture Connecticut's state labor unions with well above normal salaries wages and benefits for years now.  Look at the staggering new costs of the upcoming contract that will be briefly discussed in a for show only public hearing this coming Monday. And we know this agreement will pass with no with no questions asked.   Connecticut Taxpayers will be responsible for an additional $500 million dollars per year in additional state labor costs.  Who pays for this and where does the money come from other than from the remaining Connecticut Taxpayers in the state.  And what will Connecticut Taxpayers get in return?  More stale bureaucracy along with an inefficient bloated state government that is completely inept at resolving problems in the state.  Nothing will change.  And you can count on new and higher taxes to pay for it.  Why?  We can determine that for the past 30 years high taxes have help to strip Connecticut of its economic vibrancy and we see Connecticut a bottom feeder in all economic categories.  So why can't something different be offered to Connecticut Taxpayers except the failures of higher state spending with higher taxes?  For example massive cuts in state spending along with cuts in taxes across the board. 

This is again the record that Ned Lamont and his Connecticut Democrat Party is running for re election on in 2022.  Listening to Ned Lamont and his Connecticut Democrat Part speak of the state economy one wonders what drugs they are on since it does not sound like Connecticut in 2022. A state with a poor economy coupled with a corrupted government.  This is the record that they will lose on in 2022. And it is 1776 all over again.

Connecticut Democrats Spend Ad Infinitum. 30 Years=345%?

 The Connecticut Democrat Party just loves to spend.  And spend and spend and spend and spend.  And spend ad infinitum (ad infinitum is a Latin phrase meaning to infinity).  If one has been following Connecticut's spending crisis since the implementation in 1991 of the economic cure all the Connecticut State Income Tax we can see that spending has increased a mere 345% over this time frame from roughly $7 billion dollars to now $24.2 billion dollars for the state's biennial budget.  I wonder how many Connecticut Taxpayers besides those who are politically connected have seen their salaries increase by this amount?  If over 30 years you were lucky to get a 1 1/2% raise each year then your pay increased by 45% over the same time frame.  So why did Connecticut's spending have to increase by 345%?  Is Connecticut a special state case where an increase by 345% in state spending is only earmarked for the Democrat Party politically connected such as the state labor unions?  Does this increase of 345% provide you with more efficient state services in the state?  Does this increase of 345% provide you with greater security and police protection so that your car does not get stolen and or you have no risk of being murdered in one of the state's Democrat Party controlled cities?  Does this increase of 345% provide you with lower taxes or instead are the taxes that you pay help rank Connecticut as one of the highest taxed states in the country?  Does this increase of 345% provide you with security for your business as seen by the horrific state mandated Covid-19 lock downs that bankrupted many businesses in the state? Does this increase of 345% provide you with a balanced budget and without the current $150 billion dollars in short and long term debt along with unfunded liabilities the state owes?  Does this increase of 345% provide you with a sense of shared sacrifice by the Democrat Party politically connected such as the state labor unions?

To state that it is amazing that a state as small as Connecticut spends this much money is an understatement to say the least.  In trying to analyze the current budget (which is exceptionally difficult to do since our state government wishes to keep Connecticut Taxpayers in the dark) depending on the accounting process used salaries, benefits, pensions and interest on the debt in my opinion account for almost half of what the state spends.  And over the past 30 years some items have been taken off budget to reduce the budget deficit and seem to be lost forever.  Again why does Connecticut spend this much money and gets so little in return?  We continue to see the fiscal mismanagement and corruption of 30 years of omnipotent one party rule by the Connecticut Democrat Party which has led the state to the brink of fiscal ruin.  Who wants to start a business in the state with these kinds of economic conditions?  Who wants to move to Connecticut besides the overtaxed residents of New York or New Jersey?  Why do Connecticut Taxpayers spend so much and get so little in return? 

Yet this is the wonderful and supposedly economically efficient record that Ned Lamont, his family's hedge fund and the rest of the Connecticut Democrat Party is running for re election on in 2022.  And this is the record that they will lose on in 2022.  A poor socialistic corrupted type government that has been nurtured by both the state run media and the Democrats is crumbling in front of their eyes and there is absolutely nothing they can do about it in time to savage the election.  They have already lost badly in the eyes of most Connecticut Taxpayers.  It is over before it starts.  And it is 1776 all over again.

2022:The Lies Of The Democrat Party

 Why do politicians lie?  In my opinion politicians must advance his or her own agenda no matter what the cost and as such the fabrication of truth becomes the norm.  We are seeing it in 2022 at the state and federal levels of government by the corrupted Democrat Party.  Lies and more lies seem to be their mantra for the upcoming election.  It is the record they are running on in 2022.

On a federal level the lies being spewed by the Biden Administration should scare most citizens of our country.  There have been lies about the sheer volume of illegal immigrants who have crossed unchecked through the Mexican border and have brought to us more disease, illegal drugs and sickening human trafficking issues.  There have been lies about the amount of American lives lost and the billions of dollars wasted in military equipment and technology from the horrific Biden led withdrawal from Afghanistan.  There have been lies about the Hunter Biden laptop and his corrupted deals blessed by the President with foreign enemies of our democracy.  There have been lies about a new ultra liberal Democrat appointed Supreme Court Justice who lacks the knowledge of how to define a women since she is not a biologist-how she is a judge in America today is beyond comprehension and logic. There have been lies about the runaway inflation that our country is facing today. There have been lies about the new energy crisis in the name of green energy at all costs while the United States had a few years ago had stable energy prices and energy independence due to the Keystone Pipeline. There have been lies about the Russian and Ukraine war and the lack of help towards Ukraine. There have been lies that United States Senator Richard Blumenthal has spread trying to cover up his close ties with the Communist Party of America.  There have been lies about the mental state and health of our feeble and incoherent President Biden.  Lies and more lies seem to be their mantra for the upcoming election.

 On a state level Governor Ned Lamont seems to be trapped in one constant lie about the government manufactured Covid-19 crisis  and his family's hedge fund profits from it.  There have been lies about the how and why defenseless Connecticut citizens were trapped in death camps at nursing homes and rehabilitation centers during the government manufactured Covid-19 crisis.  There have been lies about the state's economy which still ranks last and or near last in many business development and friendliness categories.  There have been lies about the excessive taxes that Connecticut still has ranking the state in the Top 5 highest taxed states in the country.  There have been lies about the $150 billion dollars in short and long term debt along with unfunded liabilities Connecticut has going into 2022.  There have been lies about the why the Connecticut Democrat Party wants to see your personal and business tax returns.  There have been lies about the how your vote will no longer count in the state with new legislation being demanded by the Connecticut Democrat Party.  There have been lies about the no bid state Covid-19 contracts that were paid for but with no ability to prove that the items were delivered.  There have been lies about your personal information being data mined by companies blessed by the Connecticut Democrat Party.  There have been lies about the sheer amount of corruption that exists in Connecticut's state government and its elected officials.   Lies and more lies seem to be their mantra for the upcoming election.

It seems to me that the Democrat Party on a national level and the Connecticut Democrat Party love to lie to Taxpayers.  It seems to me that the Democrat Party on a national level and the Connecticut Democrat Party love seeing Taxpayers struggle and love keeping them in perpetual servitude to their corrupted government they run.   It seems to me that we have a massive disconnect in both our federal and state government as far as social and economic reality is concerned.  It seems to me that Taxpayers at all levels of government are sick of these totally inept and uneducated people who claim to be the experts on anything and everything who continue to profit off our Taxpayer funded government.  

This is all coming to an end for the Democrat Party due to the upcoming election in November.  This is all going to end badly for the stoic and incapable to lead Democrat Party as their losses will be enormous throughout the state and country.  The lies will stop once and for all. In reality Taxation Without Representation is coming to an end.  It is 1776 again.