The Brutal Reopening Of Connecticut Small Businesses on May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020.
That is the official day that has been decreed by Executive Order by our ruler Ned Lamont and his secret non public/non transparent consulting group and committee to start a four part process to reopen Connecticut.  A day that could live in the history of Connecticut as to one of the most economically damaging days to the remaining small businesses that will reopen.  We are also looking three more draconian steps on three possible dates in the future that will possibly reopen most of the rest of state. 
In trying to understand and comprehend the series of decrees, new laws and rules that govern business here in the state, one can see that large businesses will have a much easier time to reopen than small businesses.  Small businesses at this time when they least can afford it will be incurring much higher costs of operations to try to do business next week.
A realistic example is the plight of small restaurants in the state.  They are now allowed to serve a limited number of customers in outdoor seating next Wednesday.  How is this defined?  Since zoning laws and regulations differs from town to city depending on where you are located, some restaurants will have greater difficulty in setting up outdoor seating than others.  Looking at several local restaurants here in Wallingford they will have limited outdoor seating due to their location.  How is the dining experience enjoyable if you have to eat outside on a cold evening?  How is the dining experience enjoyable if you are not allowed to talk to people at the restaurant that you wish to talk to? How is the dining experience enjoyable if you must wear masks and only take them off when you are eating?  Obviously if you healthy enough to want to eat at a restaurant the logic behind the masks becomes irrational.  Also I fail to see how restaurants will be profitable at this time offering what amounts to in some cases operating at 5% capacity.  Constant cleaning of all areas at these outdoor venues will also supposedly lead to a safe dining experience.  I wonder who foots the bill for all these new cleaning procedures, cleaning materials, cleaning wipes (that can not be found anywhere), etc?  I can see many small restaurants closing for good over the next few weeks.  Our government does not understand the economics of the restaurant industry in this state.  Take out and to go meals are limited in profitability and in demand.
The new push for fool proof temperature checking is also another illogical and irrational expense for small businesses.  Are the thousands of these new and improved thermometers being distributed fool proof?  Will they work in conjunction with the new 5G secret technology?  What happens if someone traditionally has a low temperature below 98.6? What happens if someone traditionally has a high temperature above 100.4?  Who has decided these measures since the Connecticut Public Health Commissioner was fired and a "new" individual has been selected?  Is Ned Lamont now an expert of a person's temperature?
We have seen over the past sixty days a constant changing of the rules in doing business in the state.  We see that Connecticut deems large box chains, package stores, and medical marijuana stores essential to the state economy.  Small businesses were not deemed essential since March 17, 2020.  The economic logic to this continues to be irrational.
The non transparent Reopen Connecticut Advisory Committee along with a no bid $2 million dollar contract to the Democrat Party friendly Boston Consulting Group are now making all the decisions to reopen the state on their terms with little to no input from Connecticut Taxpayers.  The excessive demands and costs that they are placing on the remaining small Connecticut businesses who are fighting for their economic survival is sickening.   How will they survive?  Our state media who completely backs Ned Lamont and the Connecticut Democrat Party refuse any investigative reporting on what has been massive violations of our state constitution.  Where is our State Senate and House of Representatives who supposedly "represent" us with an occasional email or press release telling us of yet even new laws that we must live by?  The have been silent and non existent with the exception of Republican State Senator Rob Sampson and Republican State Representative Craig Fishbein. They have abandoned with ease their constitutional responsibility to represent us in Connecticut.
A brutal state economy with high taxes and regulations coupled with overreaching reopening laws has sealed the fate of Connecticut's small businesses.  Is there absolutely no mercy on small businesses in Connecticut?  Why did this happen?  Why?

Connecticut's 28 Year Recession

Connecticut as we know has many negative economic issues that need to be addressed.
It has high taxes, $80 to $100 billion dollars in short and long debt along with unfunded liabilities, a lack of job creation, a poor business climate, crumbling roads and bridges, a net migration of citizens moving out of state, illegal immigrants, and an unsustainable union and management state employee workforce being paid excessive salaries, benefits and pensions.
In the current Legislative session Governor Lamont and the Connecticut Democrat Party have offered to throw more fuel in the fire by implementing the highest set of tolls in the country, tax plastic shopping bags, soda and "junk food", increasing salaries for new politically appointed State Commissioners, licenses for cats, an increase in the minimum wage to $15 a hour, a .05% payroll tax to fund a paid 12 week family and medical leave law, more benefits for illegal immigrants, a state run health care program funded by Connecticut Taxpayers, and a one mill state wide property tax.  There are even more tax and spend proposals in the works.
What the Connecticut Democrat Party has presented to Connecticut taxpayers this session is an insult to our intelligence and shows their lack of economic logic and knowledge.  How is it possible to stimulate the state economy by raising taxes and implementing tolls by over $2 billion dollars?  It does not stimulate the economy nor help get the state out its 28 year recession.
It would have been a breath of fresh air if Governor Lamont had offered a budget that cut spending across the board for all agencies, cut all newly appointed Commissioners salaries by 10%, not giving these same new Commissioners pensions, began to start to privatize the Department of Motor Vehicles, eliminate the two to three percent automatic increase in some state pensions, just to name a few ideas.  There are many more that could have been considered.
There is hope in our State Legislature in the thirteen member Connecticut General Assembly Conservative Caucus that is now questioning these ridiculous economic bills that the Democrats want to shove down the throats of the Connecticut Taxpayer.  These brave conservative legislators are offering an alternative to the stale, failed tax and spend policies of the Connecticut Democrat Party.
It will be interesting to see what happens this session in Hartford.  It will determine again how much more sacrifice that the remaining Connecticut Taxpayers who are legal citizens of the state must give to support an omnipotent one party rule and political hierarchy that is completely out of touch with the economic reality of Connecticut. 
No tolls, no new taxes, cut spending.  It is a simplistic answer that should be the solution to Connecticut's 28 year recession.
It falls on deaf ears.