Excessive Taxation: It Just Would Not Be Connecticut Without It

 

In early 1966 The Beatles learned they faced a 95% top tax rate under Harold Wilson’s Labour government. George Harrison, who had grown up poor, was stunned that most of their new wealth was disappearing. In a February,1966 interview. he compared Wilson to the Sheriff of Nottingham, and was moved upon to write the following song lyrics:

Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
I'll tax the street
(If you try to sit, sit) I'll tax your seat
(If you get too cold, cold) I'll tax the heat
(If you take a walk, walk) I'll tax your feet
(Taxman)
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
The Taxman; The Beatles 1966 https://www.thebeatles.com/taxman

 

Two things in the above historical scenario are extremely fascinating to me. The first is that politicians through the ages have felt that just about every social problem can be solved by increasing taxes and types of taxes. The second is that these same politicians never seem to be fazed by the departure of citizens from their region as the result of that increased taxation.

Just like George Harrison sixty years ago, and thousands of Connecticut residents today, the best, the brightest, and the most productive leave places where their very lifeblood is sucked from them by government. In Connecticut, the primary blame falls at the feet of Democrats for this economic wreckage, while a tepid at best Republican contingent has provided scant pushback (or tacit acceptance ) of these destructive policies.

 

First let us examine the Democrats. The Connecticut Democrat Party love taxes, and to tax.  Why they have not yet taxed the air we breathe is beyond me.  Therefore, let us look at some of these taxes are embraced, nurtured and raised on a regular basis to support a bloated, deficit ridden Democrat state budget, gross Administrative State incompetency and over-compensation, and long-term debt.

 

Business taxes? One may wonder how any business stays in business in Connecticut with the taxes businesses pay.  In addition, please note that Connecticut's Business taxes rank near the highest in the country while the Business climate ranks in the bottom five in the country.  

Let’s start our list as is stated on  

 (https://business.ct.gov/ct-business-taxes?language=en_US)

Corporation Business Tax: C-corporations pay a flat rate of 7.5% with a minimum tax of $250, plus a 10% surtax for large corporations. Pass-Through Entity (PTE) Tax: S-corporations, partnerships, and LLCs treated as partnerships face a tax rate of 6.99%.

Sales and Use Tax: The state general sales and use tax rate is 6.35%, applied to retail goods and certain services.

Personal Income Tax: Sole proprietors and single-member LLCs report business profits on personal income tax returns, with progressive rates from 2% to 6.99%. 

Unemployment Insurance Tax: Employers must pay this state tax to cover eligible unemployed workers and have often paid for those collecting illegally as it is well-known that the state bureaucracy is far too inept to catch cheaters.  (Just ask any business owner).

Here are some other business taxes paid in the state:

Admissions and Dues Tax
Attorney Occupational Tax
Alcohol Beverage/Distributor Tax
Business Entity Tax
Cannabis Tax
Cigarette Tax
Composite Income Tax
Controlling Interest Transfer Tax
CT-IFTA
Dry Cleaning Establishment Tax
Electric Companies
Electronic Cigarette Products Tax
Estate/Gift/Succession/Trust  
Gasohol Tax
Gross Earnings Tax
Health Care Provider User Fees
Insurance / Health Care Taxes
Miscellaneous Tax
Motor Carrier Road Tax
Motor Vehicle Fuels Tax
Pass-Through Entity Tax
Petroleum Gross Earnings Tax
Prepaid Wireless E-9-1-1 Fee
Real Estate Conveyance Tax
Rental Surcharge Annual Report
Room Occupancy
Solid Waste Assessment
Special Fuel Tax
Tax Paid Motor Vehicle Fuels Tax
Tobacco Products Tax
Tourism Surcharge
Unrelated Business Income Tax

If you are a business in the state, you are collecting a great deal of different taxes, all requiring different forms to fill out and pay from. Also,

there is always confusion as to why gasoline and diesel prices are so high in Connecticut.  Walk up and ask this question of any Democrat, and you will be condescendingly told that these taxes are the fault of President Trump.  If a sane individual looks more closely Connecticut drivers pay a 25 cent per gallon excise tax, an 8.1% special gross receipts/earnings tax per gallon, and 18.4 Federal excise tax per gallon.  Thus 51.4 cents of each gallon of gas you buy is tax.  

 

And since all goods are brought to you by a truck, that all factors into "affordability" And Donald Trump has had absolutely nothing to do with any of that issue of "affordability" in Connecticut.

 

 Do you dislike that? Well, it gets even worse. In Connecticut. there are over 850 different business licenses and permits one needs to apply for when either starting a business and/ or working in one of these 850 different areas in the state.  The question that now needs to be asked (and avoided by everyone in politics) is why so many illegal aliens were given Drivers licenses in Connecticut, and how many of the illegal aliens who currently reside in Connecticut have avoided getting any of these permits/licenses?

 

Connecticut Taxpayers are taxed on mostly everything they consumer and/ or work for.  Connecticut's Utopian State Income Tax (which was going to solve all of the state's budget problems starting from 1991), is progressive with a 6.99% graduated rate.  Tax exemptions are minimal except for those who are here illegally and do not pay (but yet can have a driver’s license and presumably be allowed to vote).  While working, you will pay a Connecticut Paid Leave funded by an employee payroll contribution tax of 0.5% of your total eligible wages up to your Social Security base limit.  Yes, you get to pay a tax on "paid leave" even though you may never use it and the bulk of the money goes to administration costs of implementing it (Read: paid political patronage jobs). 

 

Sales tax is charged on an excessive amount of different items.  But yet, as a bone thrown to Connecticut Taxpayers, for one week only, only once a year is "Tax Free Week"!  This allows the peasants better known as Connecticut Taxpayers, an exemption applies to individual clothing and footwear items priced under $300.  Items include are everyday clothing, footwear, along with backpacks and athletic cleats.  (Gee…isn’t Connecticut great!)

 

Electricity costs are one of the highest in the country.  A big reason is the "Public Benefits Charge" which according Eversource is the "portion includes costs mandated by the state and federal government for financial assistance and energy efficiency programs, purchasing renewable and carbon-free electricity, and funding solar and electric vehicle incentives to help make it easier to take advantage of clean energy options." (https://www.eversource.com/residential/account-billing/manage-bill/about-your-bill/understanding-your-bill/delivery-charge-supply-cost). For many this charge accounts for 20% of their bill and should also be considered a tax.  In trying to see where this money is going along with how much greater energy efficiency is progressing, is difficult to ascertain in true Connecticut Non-transparent fashion. 

Even though this is supposed to be something different, one must then conclude that this is yet another Connecticut tax.

 

But wait! You ARE happier in Connecticut than other states in the country according to a bombshell report! https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/connecticut-ranks-in-top-10-happiest-states/  From the report; Connecticut ranks in the top 10 happiest states, according to a new WalletHub study! The study weighed internal and external factors, such as the number of adults suffering from depression, adequate sleep rate, suicide rate, number of work hours, volunteer rate, separation and divorce rate, safety and the share of adults feeling active and productive. Connecticut was ranked as the seventh happiest state in America!  In reading the metrics of the study, there was indication how these results were generated. As one X commentator noted:   Happiness is much different than most states. Happiness is waking up to see your car wasn’t stolen in the night. “Happiness is knowing that the CT General Assembly is not in session and as such another new tax wasn’t shoved down our throats. Happiness means your favorite family-owned restaurant hasn’t closed due to abusive taxation and utility rates.” https://x.com/MrIkeTurner14/status/2097662345988170161

 

Connecticut is drastically over-taxed and even with that, continues with $100-$150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt, along with myriad and massive unfunded liabilities.  Connecticut is drastically over-taxed and still ranks as a "Top Five" state in high taxes.  Connecticut is drastically over-taxed and still ranks as Bottom Five state for business climate and conditions.  Connecticut has a highly redundant, error-prone, and overpaid Administrative State that neither party has proposed reworking for decades. The model is failed, and has failed for decades. At what level of taxation will the state debt be paid off and a real balanced budget exist?  100%? 200%? More?  Does any politician even know? (Or care?)

 

Of course, in a sane world, the best hope for turning the tide of such an oppressive regime would be the stalwart voice of the opposing political party. But unfortunately, Connecticut is not a sane world, and the same decades long situation exists here as well, in reverse. This past week the Connecticut Republican Party unveiled their “affordability” tax plan which promised at best spot relief and no fundamental changes to a wretched and failed system badly needing restructuring from the top, down. https://ctmirror.org/2026/09/09/gop-legislators-ct-tax-relief/

Predictably, even this lukewarm at-best proposal received major pushback from economically insane Democrats that first blamed Donald Trump, and secondly, decried any proposal that would disturb their well-seated food chain. Meanwhile, Republicans, rather than assailing the administrative bollix of Connecticut government and the flattening, lowering and simplification of tax rates, chose to argue minutia with Democrats rather than a severe full-throttle approach that is so desperately needed if Connecticut ever hopes to be the least bit economically attractive in the future. It must not be unmentioned that this was a Republican party that deliberately and inexplicably excluded a competent and formidable gubernatorial candidate proposing the framework of a simplified tax reduction plan, without explanation or reason. This glaring question remains  with an answer of deafening silence.

 

 

But Republican failures are a minority failure in the face of a gross horrible morass. Real facts do not lie.  The super-majority Connecticut Democrat Party lies and pontificates daily with a bureaucratic maze of bureaucracy, fraud, waste and inefficiency. It has created a Connecticut where lies are truth and truth are lies, Connecticut Taxpayer be damned.  The only hope would be a Republican Party that would turn the corner and drastically rework the cancerous mess of Connecticut and its putrid and burdensome tax structure. This has not happened for decades.

 

But even so, kindly tell me why you are voting for Democrats again in November? Possibly, it is because you hate Donald Trump, who had absolutely nothing to do with the economic horrors of Connecticut, but yet, reduced your Federal taxes by 20% and promises more cuts in the future if Congress cooperates. But if that is not acceptable to you,keep hating Trump, watch your insurance bills skyrocket, watch your cities crumble and continue to pay dearly for the colossal horrors continually brought to you under the Democrat reign of perpetual failure.

The Pharisee And The Publican- The Connecticut Democrat Version of 2026

Most people are familiar with the Biblical tale of the Pharisee and the Publican.

It goes something like this: Two men went up to the temple to pray: one a Pharisee (a member of a Jewish religious group known for strict observance of the Law) and the other a publican/tax collector (a figure often viewed as a sinner and collaborator with Roman authorities, despised).

 

• The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: “God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.”
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• The tax collector (publican) stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

In the Bible, two men came before God seeking him and one was able to approach God for mercy, being of a sincere heart. In the political theater of Connecticut, two men came before members of their party seeking primary votes. Sadly, both failed miserably as both projected no sense of sincerity whatsoever.

 

Welcome to the 2026 Democrat Version of the Pharisee and The Publican. 

 One, Josh Elliott wants to be the Governor of Connecticut so badly he can taste it. He demands your vote as any good Communist/Socialist Young Democrat demands. He confronted the Taxpayer funded Capitalist evil, enemy Governor Ned Lamont in a 45-minute debate held on July 22 on WTNH News 8 for all to see (https://www.wtnh.com/news/elections/lamont-elliott-spar-over-taxes-utility-costs-and-ice-mask-policy-in-news-8-debate/). And what a stale, scripted debate it was.  The same old, same old, tired failed Democrat policies echoed repeatedly. The agreed-to, (or network prepared?) questions were out of central casting.   No new ideas or logical thought provided.

Here are some interesting and as expected quotes from this fight between two Democrat Party brothers in corruption. (https://ctmirror.org/2026/07/22/lamont-and-elliott-clash-politely-in-only-tv-debate-before-primary/)

 Elliott:  “We’re the second-most reliant state on the property tax, which is deeply regressive,” Elliott said Wednesday. “The only way we can fix this is through a fair tax structure, asking the wealthy to pay a commensurate amount, a fair amount.”  Hey Josh! how much are you going to charge the wealthy in taxes?  100%? 200%?  At what point do you think they will move out of your state and thus pay zero in Connecticut taxes as they have done in every other state except your own?  Have you seen anyone and or any business move into state to pay Connecticut taxes in your ten years of damaging public service as a State Representative? In fact, what businesses have moved in state, excepting those receiving 2% taxpayer-funded sweetheart loans from our should-be-abolished Department of Economic and Community Development? What experience do you have with said loans? Why don’t you ask your opponent Mr. Lamont about this type of 2% forgivable economic assistance as he is well familiar with multi-million-dollar fundings advanced to his wife’s investors via Sema-4 and the Digital Currency Group?  What have you done about any of this?  

Not much as your record of accomplishments in unrecognizable.

Elliott also stated: “When I see that I’m up against somebody who takes my message and does the Temu version of it, I find it deeply frustrating,” “The fact is, I’m glad we’re rowing the same direction, but not quite the same, and not quite the same velocity. We could do so much more here in Connecticut, and the fact is, we have to fight for fairness up and down the board.”  What is this fairness he is talking about? Political nepotism for Connecticut Democrat Party operatives as in Bridgeport? More low-income jobs, multi-unit housing, and supporting dependency on the backs of the remaining legitimate taxpayers in the state? More gender-affirming care for innocent children?

Lamont:  “He (Elliott) doesn’t have much of a track record to talk about,” Lamont said. “I could talk about minimum wage. I could talk about economic growth. I could talk about the money we got for education and what we’re doing for health care. So, it gave me a lot of material to work with.”  Corrupted Capitalist Lamont could answer questions on how much did his family's hedge fund profit from Infosys Limited, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, "ADVANCECT", Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US (CT), Mt. Sinai Genomics, "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Informatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", "4-CT", and "VillageMD ““The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, McKinsey, “CT Next”, and the Tidal River Fund, 'Baby Bonds portfolio, the UCONN Foundation, to name a few?  I wonder why the moderators of the debate nor Elliott did not bring these areas up. Also, why does the Boiler Room of Connecticut ("Connecticut Innovations") steadfastly refuse to release any information whatsoever on their portfolio holding “Yuma Asset Management?” Is it because it is directly related to that same Digital Currency Group, and neither you nor your wife ever really “got out” of that deal and you lied to the citizens as you are wont to do?

Or how about both candidates disclosing their Income tax returns? (Hey Josh! Be sure to ask for Annie’s separate return, especially the part of Schedule “B” that asks for locations of foreign investments such as the tax-free and secret Cayman Islands, an integral part of the Sema-4 debacle).

Lamont also added: “We’re getting our fiscal house in order, and we had some surpluses to allow us to pay down some of the pension debt,” Lamont said. “Now we have the resources we need to make some of the big investments to really make a difference in people’s lives.” But what are exactly these investments? More 2% loans? More throwing money in exchange for votes and gimmees? More picking of winners and losers? But who cares about Connecticut and its  $100 and $150 billion dollars in short and term debt along with unfunded liabilities? What is the plan to pay that off? Why are so many legal and illegal citizens on state taxpayer funded social aid? Why do you never seem to care about any of that?

 You could have predicted the rest of debate. More rhetoric, more theatrics, and more spins on one of the worst performing states economically in the country.  Are you excited about either Democrat Party candidate? I would venture to say no as both will end up increasing state spending, increasing taxes, do less to try to combat crime and take away more of your personal freedoms. It’s the same garbage force fed to you by the Connecticut Democrat Party and its state-run media since time immemorial. It is the same rhetoric and the same lies over and over again. And most insultingly, they believe that no one sees (or cares).

Yes, both candidates are "insincere" about representing Connecticut. Both candidates represent the powerful economic and social self-interests that have made them career politicians with zero accomplishments. One candidate desperately wants to be important and be a good socialist helping to tear apart our country and its very fabric of being. The current Governor is desperately trying to keep his family's Connecticut Taxpayer funded increase in wealth, through the biggest bunch of shell companies with zero transparency and the stock deer-in-the-headlights look whenever he is confronted with a question of self-dealing or leveraging the state for personal gain. Both are inept and both are unfit to serve the Connecticut Taxpayer. 

It is the 2026 Connecticut Democrat Version of the Pharisee and The Publican. The difference, is, neither Elliott or Lamont promises to repent, straighten up, and fly right.

 

CONNECTICUT: The House That Political Hacks Built

 At the close of the Second World War, there was a great migration from the southern states of the country to the coasts, along with a postwar baby boom. This influx of additional people caused well-meaning and thoughtful civic leaders to try to find ways to house this overflow of people and family growth. One solution was rental “projects housing,” creating small apartments of many sizes with attractive landscapes to give the residents a feeling of home. And the projects sprung up everywhere. Father Panik Village in Bridgeport, CT. Southfield Village in Stamford. Arnold Court in Greenwich, and the masterful Cabrini Green in Chicago, IL. Starting with visions of success, failure came. Combinations of the welfare system, the destruction of the nuclear family via that same welfare system, drugs, alcoholism, crime, and abandonment caused these projects to meet the wrecker’s ball, crumbling into the dust of needles and shell casings left long before. Families that stayed together followed the original intention of the projects and saved money and moved out to homes of their very own. City mismanagement caused the buildings to wear out much sooner than expected. Overall, it was a pitiful debacle, and the wrecker's ball was the punctuation ending this sad and failed chapter in history.

After this wasteful disaster of epic proportions, one sad lesson was learned: Housing provided without the opportunity of ownership and preserving one’s investment was invariably headed to ruin. However, developments such as New York’s “Co-Op City” and “Cooper Village” provided ownership and equity and have succeeded for decades. So, one would think that to provide success in housing other than abject failure, one would not try to do the exact same approach that failed decades ago and expect a different result.

However, Welcome to Connecticut! 

A place where a chorus of political hacks always have a better idea!

A place where the wrong solution is chosen about every time, and where failure is gift wrapped to masquerade as success.

A place where the failed approaches of the recent past are brought out to the sycophantic and ignorant as "unprecedented".

A place where cries of an “affordable housing shortage”  have caused the serial building of monstrous apartment developments that stamp out any semblance of local zoning and community character, as we find these housing monstrosities are entirely unaffordable due to dead business and salary growth in Connecticut. Therefore these developments head to the express lane to be the Cabrini Greens and Father Panik Villages of the future.

A place where no decent and durable housing can be built as the combination of a dead economy, a welfare-state environment, contaminated zoning laws, and the sheer cost of doing so makes all that a losing proposition not worth the risk for any builder or contractor in his or her right mind.

But never fear! Whenever there is a social or community need that good old economic principles are not permitted to deal with, you can rest assured that a combination of politicians, community activists, “religious leaders”  grossly overpaid “nonprofit heads” and “housing advocates” will step in to make a bad result, even  unthinkably worse.

And worse leads to what we already know.

Housing affordability? For things to be affordable, people must be able to produce sufficient income in order to afford them. “Connecticut gets an "F" on housing affordability screams a recent headline so states a recent report by Realtor.com.”   Connecticut ranked 46th out of 50 in the report. The median household income is just over $95,000 per year in the state, and the median listing price for a home is just over $500,000. “We need more homes, we need more multifamily homes, those missing middle options. But really, we need a combination of all those strategies for Connecticut to catch up to our peers,” Chelsea Ross with Partnership for Strong Communities said. (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/connecticut-receives-f-for-housing-affordability-and-availability-in-new-report/)

The report itself should be must reading for those running for office in the November election, presuming they possess the basic comprehension skills in order to do so. Housing is a complete debacle for Connecticut, in contrast to the billions of dollars that have and will be spent on the guise of "affordable housing". "If the top of the class reshuffled, the bottom barely moved at all. Connecticut (No. 46, F), California (No. 47, F), Hawaii (No. 48, F), Massachusetts (No. 50, F), and Oregon (No. 45, D-) all hold the same rankings as last year...These states face structural challenges such as high prices, constrained land, restrictive zoning, and building costs that far outpace what middle-income buyers can afford.     (https://www.realtor.com/research/state-report-cards-2026/)

What I find interesting is that the "non-profit" Partnership for Strong Communities” organization is quoted in the above news report. "The Partnership" has been in existence since 1998, and their website states the following: Since our founding, the Partnership has successfully advocated for more than $2.6 billion in public funding in Connecticut. These investments have helped build homes and deliver services to increase housing affordability, supply, access, and stability. We have engaged community, civic, and elected leaders to come together and imagine, plan and execute effective change and to create a new paradigm of thinking about housing. (https://pschousing.org/our-history/). Their finances are interesting also. Their Executive Director, Chelsea Marie Ross received $132,271 in compensation along $5,762 in "other" compensation in 2024 (their last published financial statements) (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200882009). Executive Compensation along with other Salaries and wages of $454,488 account for 54.3% of all expenses for this "non-profit". 

Many social-media users asking questions of, or making criticisms of "The Partnership" are quickly blocked because "The  Partnership", is imperious, and shame on us for not knowing that. Meanwhile, The State of Connecticut spends more than $1 billion dollars a year for programs such as the “Housing Trust Fund” and the “Time to Own” homebuyer program. After all, no amount of money is too large in order to deal with a "crisis".

Many find it fascinating that with the amount of Connecticut Taxpayer funded programs and "nonprofits" for "affordable housing" through tax credits, subsidies to municipalities and other programs, Connecticut continues its race to the bottom of both a shortage of housing and the affordability of housing. It is also important to note and is left out of the debate, is that Connecticut has one of the highest property rates in the country, with such rate increases attributable in many cases to waste, fraud, abuse, and duplication of services as opposed to consolidation. It is ranked third in the country for highest property tax rates with a real estate tax rate of about 1.54% to 1.66% of a property's assessed value. The logical question would be wouldn't the lowering of property tax rates in turn lower property and rental costs? That simple question seems lost in the race to control zoning by an elite political few, who, while living in their Greenwich mansions, demand a lower standard of housing that they can profit from in the guise of "affordable housing" while, (like Ned and Annie Lamont with Annie’s equity interest in benefit provider “Unite Us”), can sit back and reap the benefits of this obfuscation and exploitation of the relative underclass.  

There are many free-market solutions to lower the costs of housing and rents in Connecticut. The solutions have worked before and will work today. However, since the "non-profit affordable housing" industry is drive by profit and control and facilitated by overpaid bureaucrats, professional panderers. and Executive Directors, these solutions will never be mentioned. Connecticut's ruling Democrat elite savor and profit by bottom-feeding off the pitiful economic conditions that exist in the state while not paying the debts they create, thereby adding to the $100-150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt and unfunded liabilities. Meanwhile a cacophony of activists, do-gooders, and suffering Sams and Sallies are quick to call anyone a racist, (or even worse, a Trump supporter), for calling this horrific mess to task.

 

One really does not need to read a report or listen to the comments of this chorus of failure to understand what is really happening. Just see what is happening around you. And to the cacophony of the hacks, just keep it up.  For it is certain that if they keep it up, housing will never be affordable in this state. 

Connecticut: As 43% Of Citizens Have 80/20 Vision, Politicians Are Blind.

 Connecticut is an interesting case study in this election year as sentiments mirror the national perspective. In the examination of this perspective, two vastly different viewpoints are presented by voters. Somehow, 57% of these state voters agree with the current corrupted, tepid, and failed state-run economy while 43% are shouting out for some innovative ideas, actual ethical leadership with economic growth and reducing the current state debt of roughly $150 billion dollars that is not factored into the venerated “Fiscal Guardrails”.  The Connecticut Democrat Party with all of its corruption, ineptitude, incompetence, and economic and social failure continues its dictatorial hold on the state-run media and some citizens, with said leverage facilitated by your tax dollars via lager “Marketing, Media, and Public Relations” -expenditures in the state budget.  Meanwhile, the current race for Governor is shaping up to be a re-run of the last four debacle races that were bereft of boldness, principles, and innovative ideas that in the end, signified nothing.

And almost on cue every election cycle, we invariably see another mishandled public relations disaster by the Connecticut Republican Party that somehow misses the entire moral core of the argument. In 2022, the “Annie Lamont Goes To (abortion-restrictive) Nashville” ad campaign, Republican insiders laughed and slapped their knees at this obtuse joke poking ridicule at the Lamonts, while not caring that at least 43% of their voter base do not want to see babies killed in the womb https://hartfordbusiness.com/article/annies-in-nashville-lamonts-offhand-comment-now-in-stefanowski-ad/.  Fast forward to 2026, and we see Jadon MacCormick, a 23-year old man running for state office on his partially imperfect Christian beliefs, and rather than provide guidance and embrace those parts of the young man’s enthusiasm and family perspective that 43% of legitimate voters in their stable agree with, choose to submit him to a high-tech lynching where many established Republicans, rather than separating the wheat from the chaff, have agreed with child-abusing Democrats that Mr. MacCormick and all of his views need to be eradicated from the race, if not the face of the earth, as he does not represent "Connecticut Values". https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/connecticut-leaders-denounce-gop-candidates-happy-straight-month-statement/amp/ . All said, if one is interested in the way this situation could have been a remarkable success as opposed to a colossal failure, I respectfully direct you to my friend and colleague’s Tony De Angelo’s show of June 4, 2026. https://youtu.be/yXekoEUKVuk?si=Xtj2lUaBx0aFpMva.  

And once again, we see another Public Relations disaster brought to you courtesy of the Connecticut Republican Party. 

But in the endgame, what does all of that matter to the 43%? That 43% of those legally voting in the state faced with a dead economy, oppressive utility costs, excessive taxation, a lack of leadership and a morally-bankrupt state are so tired of this facade of posturing, and care only to the extent that they do want any more of the malfeasance and venality that represents both the Connecticut Democrat Party and its corrupted Governor Ned Lamont. These people have what is known in the political trade as “80/20” issue voters, focusing their energies on the items most important to their survival. And at the same time the never-ending issues of illegal drug use, destroyed and wrecked cities, massive crime, and violence along with a failed legal system are repeated by taxpayer-supported media reminding them that all of the ills of their world are all President Trump's fault and/or all due to Republican’s fault.

But for all of the established parties jousting about state corruption, all of it real, and none of it good as it reflects gross negligence, abuse, fraud, and omissions across both sides, What Connecticut officials had to say about latest Erin Stewart report, . The major and real economic issues in Connecticut conveniently omitted by these parties continue to be a lack of transparency in the Lamont Administration. Once again, where are the answers to the involvement of the Lamont's in   "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Infomatics", “Centrellis”. "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", and "VillageMD",  the Lamont-related Cayman Island partnerships, large Cayman Islands deals such as the "Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund" hiding in the UCONN Foundation,  and the numerous deals hidden through “quasi-public” organizations such as “Connecticut Innovations”, all of which entities have been tracked to have a Lamont-family financial connection through some state-located municipality or nonprofit.  But state media tells us that all things are great! If the state is in such great economic shape, why does it have one of the highest tax rates in the country, one of the worst rankings for businesses, a departure of corporate businesses the size of a conga line and $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities? 

Query why there are two realities in Connecticut, being the one they want for you to believe, and the one that is actually happening in reality?

What else is the 43% of forgotten voters concerned about as opposed to endless strivings of politicians jamming their version of “Connecticut Values” down our throats? Their kids. Harm to their children. The real social issue in the state of Connecticut. The crisis of illegal drugs.   How many more years are needed to clean up the chronic flow of illegal and deadly drugs in the state? How many more human beings need to die from drug overdoses to say enough is enough? It is evident that politically connected operators close to state government benefit from this constant drug crisis by Connecticut Taxpayers monies being funneled to numerous "non-profit" agencies that are not taking care of this problem.  It is the same situation with domestic violence charities as the more funding there is, the more beatings there are. Indeed, these are the “Connecticut Values” that your taxpayer-paid state media chooses to hide from your view when you flick a switch for news.

What else is important to that 43%? Violence. Car theft and criminal retail theft abound in the state. Why must people fear for their lives to buy gasoline at night? Why can't criminals be convicted of their crimes and be taken off the streets? How many more murders in the Democrat Party strongholds of Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, and Waterbury need to happen before someone really starts to get tough with crime for the last time? Will it happen if a prominent Democrat Party family member is murdered in cold blood? Will the police officer that took the craven killer down be criminally charged? (Of course, this is a nonsensical question as police in Democrat-run Connecticut are not allowed to police anything whatsoever).

But there is a critical error in blaming only one party for this morass. The charade of this failed Connecticut Democrat Party should be brutally addressed every single day in this election by the Republican Party. We know it will not be, nor ever will be, until there is new and dedicated leadership for ethics to be restored to both parties. You see, the problem is Republican blindness. Republicans try to deal with this cancer on a political level trying to be liked and accepted. while Democrats are fighting a culture war against all things responsible and decent. If this fatally flawed approach will not change, then maybe it is really time for a set of logically, functional, and honest ideas/solutions and actions to be promoted by a new and legitimate third party. It would truly be a breath of fresh air in the confusion, smog, and sickening pollution that our current Connecticut Uniparty political system is mired in for this election.

Connecticut's Imploding State Government- Ten Long Years Later

 Ten years ago on April 2, 2016, I wrote a blog on layoffs in Connecticut's state government. (https://swickspeak.blogspot.com/2016/04/connecticuts-imploding-state-government.html). In review of the same, it was a shock, even to me, as to how far economic conditions in the once-proud Nutmeg State of Connecticut have sunk.

In 2016, there were 45,000 full time state employees. In addition, there were over 46,000 state pension retirees in 2014 that cost about $1.6 billion dollars to the state in both short term and long term liabilities (http://ctsunlight.org/pensions/).  Fast forward to 2026, and there are over 74,000 state employees, being an increase of roughly 61% in ten years. As of 2024, there were over 54,800 state pension retirees which is roughly an increase of 20% in ten years. (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/all-employees-state-government-in-connecticut-fed-data.html) The costs of those retirees in 2024 were roughly $2.5 billion dollars in both short term and long-term liabilities, being an increase of roughly 67% (https://ctsunlight.org/pensions). Of course, logic and reason would lead one to believe that the added taxpayer spending is attributable to a burgeoning population. But mind us all, this is Connecticut where reason and logic have no place. 

I sadly submit unto you that Connecticut's state population in the past ten years has stayed stagnant with estimates being between 3.6 and 3.7 million people (not counting illegal immigrants in the state). To accommodate this stagnant population that is largely supported by a handful of billionaires, Connecticut's state budget has increased in the past ten years by $7.5 billion dollars or roughly 40%. The costs of salaries, pensions and benefits now are roughly 20-25% of the state budget.

The costs of living have increased dramatically in the past ten years in Connecticut, with the state now having the second highest electric rates in the country that are marked up 20% as a “public benefit” to us all. Another evident result of the rot and decline of the state is that the business-toxic climate has driven the best, brightest, and most productive far from state borders. Major world-class players such as  General Electric, Aetna, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, United Technologies, Raytheon Technologies, Carrier, Otis, Edible Arrangements, LEGO North America, Duracell, Stag Arms, Frontier Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Edgewell Personal Care, Schick, Unilever, Bayer, Pfizer, UBS, RBS/NatWest, GE Capital, People’s United Bank, Bob’s Stores, Eastern Mountain Sports, Lord & Taylor, Stanley Tool, Subway, Odyssey Logistics, Rogers Corporation, Diageo North America, Pitney Bowes, Xerox, ESPN, WWE, Charter/Spectrum, Connecticut Sun, Norwich Navigators, and the Bridgeport Islanders are just a partial list of the businesses that have either severely peeled back operations or left the state entirely. When higher-paid private-sector jobholders are replaced by either low-paid workers or those requiring state subsidies, taxes increase and genuine economic activity decreases. This is a simple lesson that a high school Distributive Education student could easily learn, but such lessons have ostensibly been lost on politicians for at least a decade, without a care.

To give more color to the business-toxic climate of Connecticut, kindly bear in mind that Connecticut has one of the highest tax rates in the country as it taxes many different goods, services and occupations but still has between $100 and $150 billion dollars in short and term debt along with unfunded liabilities. Powerful economic development incentives granted under the OBBBA of 2025 are summarily ignored by politicians of both parties as they cower at the name of "Trump" who enacted these incentives and spitefully persist in the failed and costly and shady patterns of the past. Connecticut technically has yet to come out of the recession of 1991 as it has not and can not create new jobs in the private sector. The only new jobs that can be created are even more state taxpayer funded positions and unchecked, non-transparent, never to be paid back non jobs paid through surreptitious exempt organizations, funded by Connecticut Taxpayers and hand-picked by the corrupted and should-be abolished Connecticut Department of Community and Economic Development. This sick and sordid ecosystem has been the norm of Connecticut, and if such were indeed beneficial, we would not be seeing and living such poor results.

Is it somehow possible that somewhere in the not-too-distant future this false house of cards will implode? How can the state maintain this exorbitant spending on nothingness and survive economically? Is every one of the current and more than 74,000 state employees necessary? Has their productivity increased to the point that the state somehow, despite the real horrific, economic statistics that are posted year in and year out, are essential to the betterment of the state? Are Connecticut Taxpayers missing something? State officials seem much more worried to protect abortion, illegal immigrants, removing parental rights, mandating proper photo ID to return cans and bottles (but not to vote), and the further erosion and destruction of the remaining personal freedoms to legal state residents, but seemingly will not give one iota of thought to what would be necessary to fix the state economically.  

And how can it be possible not to raise taxes to support this mess? Will the remaining Connecticut Taxpayers sympathize with the state employee unions who claim high-income taxpayers do not pay enough? Or will many actually notice how many have moved to lower taxed states as they have been for years and follow?  How much more do they want the top 1% of taxpayers to pay? Does anyone consider if the handful of billionaires supporting the state will finally throw up their hands in disgust and leave? Does anyone in government ever even consider these very real possibilities?

The state election is fast approaching. And it is shaping up to be a repeat of the past 36 years of elections in the state. Does any established politician in the state recognize the seriousness of the state's economic problems? And are you really better off than you were 10 years ago? 4 years ago? 2 years ago, and or yesterday? For today and every day, for weeks, for months and for years, Connecticut's state government continues to implode. Wasted economic resources and tax dollars continue to be seen daily in our state economy.

 

As I have stated many times now, Rome did burn many years ago. Connecticut burns daily to the point of no economic return as I stated some ten years ago. And the fire has become much bigger. And virtually no one gets that. 

Who, or what will lead Connecticut from the abyss of fiscal oblivion? It is a question in search of an answer for over a decade, exacerbated by the fact that hitherto no one has been willing or able to provide such an answer. Again, I pray, May God save the once great State of Connecticut.

Why Is 40% The Biggest Number In Connecticut?

 In the alternative universe of the once-great State of Connecticut, omnipotent Democrat One Party Rule clutches to economic failure, destruction, and confusion much like to someone exiting a burning building would clutch to a bungee rope. As a continual model for failure, the political leadership of Connecticut arrogantly hails economic bankruptcy and skyrocketing crime as progressive triumphs as they trumpet their ” care” for their people. Concurrently, President Donald Trump is aggressively moving toward a campaign of business repatriations, border security, “drill baby, drill” energy independence, and the sharpest and best tax policy I have seen in decades. But for the dogged efforts of stalwart independent journalists on social channels, Connecticut residents would have never heard about Trump Accounts, enhanced Opportunity Zones, and enhanced tax breaks for business asset purchases. Any rational person would think that Connecticut Republicans should be championing and pounding on these issues and benefits daily. Instead, we see a wan, late-to-the-dance effort in the Legislature to push the “no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security” provisions of the Trump OBBBA Act of 2025, (without mentioning the ruinous word “Trump”) and done only by public outcry as my friend and colleague Tony De Angelo was mentioning this six months ago on the Lee Elci Show, WJJF - New London, CT . With no mention of any other serious matters of tax and economic policy, we see a series of dumb and unfunny videos performed by Republicans lending no focus nor seriousness to the critical matters and benefits at hand helpful to all Connecticut citizens. But apparently, none of that matters in the grand bizzarro world of the Nutmeg State, where Democrats spin fictions, Republicans try to add humor to weak or fruitless matters while much more serious things slide, and meanwhile, over 40% of the adult-voting population of the state flounders in a tunnel of non-representation and continued aggrievement.

You may wonder why I used the figure of 40%. Forty percent is the figure of Connecticut residents that voted for Donald Trump in 2024. 40% of Connecticut residents voted for safe communities, lower taxes, (only) two sexes, cheaper energy, and financial empowerment. 40% of Nutmeggers voted against boys in girls sports and legal immigration. But close to 100% of the Connecticut State Legislature really does not give a care about any of that 40%. Presumably, it is because 40% of the population aligns themselves with a horrible individual wanting them to live free and prosper and start stock index accounts for their children. Could this selective ignorance be generated in fear, jealousy, or shame? I submit to my readers that it is a form of all three of the above.Therefore, the operative question then becomes: If 40% of the voting population of Connecticut wants and believes the policies of President Trump, why is there never an effort to seek out and develop another 11% of what would be these unwashed masses?

Imagine a Country on fire. Imagine a state like Connecticut on fire. Can you imagine if President Trump was actually allowed to govern without his two hands tied behind his back all the time?  Can you imagine if the Democrat Party, who is currently in the minority on a federal level, actually tried to govern with the President rather than spew their never-ending hatred for the man on a daily basis? Can you imagine what would happen if our stoic Connecticut Republican party acted like Republicans and applied themselves to sound economic and tax principles and policies rather than a new generation of “Ned Lamont Goes To Nashville” videos? It really would be the dawn of the Golden Age of America.

The key to victory, especially in Connecticut, in the November election, is to reinforce that 40% of Connecticut Trump voters and cultivate 11% more. The gags and the videos are useless. Policies will drive this election. And the many successful policies of President Trump should primarily be communicated to voters on a daily basis. True Republican policy changes have historically created an avenue of positive change for our society and economy that will fuel economic expansion overall. Instead of making gags, this should be the Republican Job #1, every day, in every way.

The campaign for state offices should not be an automatic write off for the Republicans, yet this election is starting off as it has normally for many years now. As a gross insult to the 40% of state voters affirming the Trump principles, over thirty state office seats were unopposed by Republicans in 2024. This gap  facilitates the plan of the corrupt Democrat Party to ram “emergency legislation” down the throats of Connecticut Taxpayers while crying that such egregious conduct is necessary because the Republicans hold up critical pieces of legislation such as earmarks to Democrat political cronies, biased public education policies, and much more bad legislation. It is the same rhetoric that the Connecticut Democrat Party throws out without a bit of questioning by the obedient state run and paid-for media. But operatively, Connecticut never gets out of its "emergencies" and or its ongoing "crises". It is still in a horrific economic recession with no economic growth. It is one of the highest cost of living states in the country with high state and local taxes, high insurance costs, high electric rates, and high transportation costs. It continues to have a poor business outlook unless you are Ned and Annie Lamont or you fall high up on the Great Administrative State Food Chain. But these issues just never get addressed and have not been addressed for 36 years as Connecticut still is stuck in a perpetual economic recession that it can never extricate itself from.

Of course, anything Connecticut has tried has skidded right to failure. Therefore, what would be lost if Connecticut Republicans led the charge to a bold and different approach? Why couldn’t Trump-like policies that attack some of the many issues that are impacting Connecticut be part of the campaign in the upcoming election? Why couldn't economic issues be front and center of this campaign. For example, are there any solutions whatsoever being offered to the crushing Connecticut state debt? Why does Connecticut spend so much and still have so much debt? Why are people continuing to leave Connecticut, especially young college graduates? How many more Stanley Black And Decker’s will be lost due to the endemic and inept business practices of Connecticut and its leaders? Isn't the "affordability" crisis a making of poor economic policies by the Democrat Party with years of gross fiscal mismanagement? Isn’t “affordability” a direct coefficient of “energy prices?” Has any Connecticut politician ever mentioned that critical coefficient to you? I am happy that you now know.

A logical economic and social plan can end Connecticut's Democrat Party omnipotent one-party rule. A promotion of strict economic policies of cutting state spending, a Citizen-DOGE like state office to eliminate fraud and waste in state government, full Freedom-of-Information of all entities, cuts in both personal and business taxes, a real anti-drug program to get drugs off the streets and eliminate the profitability of illegal sales, a legal system that takes hardened criminals off the streets and makes the entire state safe, and lastly the end of financial support for those illegal immigrants that crowd the state with deportations would dramatically create a bright future for Nutmeggers present and future.  A strong platform would gain traction in the state and show leadership that is sorely lacking in the state with the incoherent Democrat failed programs that are force fed to the masses and create a rebranding of Republicans which they have never had in any recollection of memory.

Just remember that 40% of Connecticut voters have no representation in the state, and elected office holders do not acknowledge that. Just remember that state spending increased in a 35-year period by over three hundred percentage points with roughly the same amount of population. Just remember, the cure-all issues of the Connecticut state income tax have increased over the years, and the state still has never-ending debt and unfunded liabilities. Maybe just maybe voters could have real alternatives this election and finally change the state's direction. For if not, look forward to another eight-year reign of a self-dealing fatuous King and the constant destructive pandering of his connected winners over losers.

 

The Fate Of The State

 It is another quintessential election year in Connecticut. In 2026 both legal and illegal voters will be voting for the same five current Socialist Democrat United States Representatives and all of the State offices from Governor down to the General Assembly. And what an election it is going to be! And Connecticut is officially up and running with no man safe as the Legislature has been gaveled into session. In listening to the corrupt Socialist Democrat Governor Ned Lamont's State of the State address, one wonders what state he lives in. It is quite clear to any rational observer that Lamont and his fellow Democrats have done an excellent job in driving Connecticut into economic oblivion, and his current budget will help cement Connecticut into a bottom five lowest ranking economic state in the country for more years to come. And his speech was the usual anti-Trump, anti-ICE rhetoric that defines the Democrat Party in 2026. But no one tied to Lamont seems to care. If you happen to disagree with this Democrat disaster looking for a place to happen you are either 1) racist, 2) white supremacist, 3) hostile, 4) insurrectionist, or 5) any combination of more than one of the items listed above. And in the eyes of the government, you should be rendered inoperative on general principles.

I highly recommend all Connecticut voters read Lamont's speech (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/read the full text connecticut gov ned lamont gives 2026 state of the state address/?ipid=promo link block2), and draw your own conclusions. (All quotes below are from his speech)

Many will feel it is an insult to Thomas Paine who wrote the revolutionary commentary "Common Sense" back in 1776 when Lamont stated, "He was what we would call today a social influencer. His pamphlets were handed out by the hundreds of thousands. His call to revolution was debated from taverns in Windsor to coffeehouses in Fairfield. By the end of that year, 1776, his optimism was tempered by hard times. Paine concluded, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Two hundred and fifty years later, we find ourselves once again in times that try men’s souls. Masked federal agents have descended on Minneapolis, terrorizing communities, tearing families apart. Two young Americans, a mom and an ICU nurse shot dead. Some of our folks worry that another government shutdown and sudden federal cuts will mean no dinner tonight, no roof over their head, too expensive to take care of a sick child. These are times that try men’s souls." Sorry Ned, but your comparison of Thomas Paine and our American Revolution to today's Anti ICE protests protecting criminal illegal immigrants from deportation is a gross insult to our forefathers of our country.

He added: “Because we have used Connecticut common sense, we have been able to make up for some of the harsh cuts coming out of The White House. We were among the very first to backstop food support for working families. We saw the scared faces and long lines at the food pantries just a few months ago.” So Ned, why does the Head of Connecticut Foodshare Jason Jakubowski make over $400,000 a year? Couldn't that $400,000 feed the many starving people of your economically vibrant state? What about the other bulbous salaries paid to non-job executives in the redundant and covert nonprofits funded by state dollars as the “poor mouth” cries get louder? How does this form of racketeering help the poor and vulnerable? (Rest assured anyone asking the question I just asked is automatically branded to be any one or more of the pejorative epithets mentioned above).

But who are you to question results? Says Ned:  "The Connecticut economy is strong, for now. We have faster economic growth (fourth highest in the country last quarter), more new business startups, and lower unemployment than most of the nation all of which contributes to higher state income, and that allows our 2027 budget to increase investments in education, housing, and nonprofits not to mention our emergency reserve. " ... "Every year we have worked to make life a little less expensive and a little more affordable. Working families earn a little more, surely helps. Remember cheering on the essential workers during COVID? Many of them were earning the minimum wage, which today is almost $17 an hour, up from about $10 since we took office. And after receiving no increase for several years, our state employees have received a wage increase every year we’ve been in office. We appreciate your extraordinary work, and tell your friends we still need more nurses, corrections officers, and state police. We were told by the naysayers that a higher wage would crash the economy, instead a little more money in your pocket is allowing more families to get back on their feet and our economy to prosper." If the economy is so strong then why are there long lines at the food pantries? Why aren’t you crediting President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for sending short-lived Defense projects to Connecticut? What will you do when that ends? What will you do when the last five or six billionaires leave the state? Does State employee salaries, benefits and pensions account for over 20% of the state budget now? Aren't several of your state "nonprofits" currently under federal investigation for fraud? Have you taken one step towards curbing the myriad governance and out of control spending abuse to these "nonprofits" via the Department of Economic and Community Development? Of course, no steps have been undertaken on any of the above, (and by asking these questions I am sure a race-based pejorative epithet is waiting for me).

But this odd and twisted world is takes some funny turns. Lamont, now being influenced by the left-wing part of his party has turned into a Caucasian version of Huey Newton and will now give every school student a "free" breakfast and as always more money for education. Per Ned: “We tried last year, let’s try it again this year our budget provides for free school breakfasts for all of our students. Everybody starts the day right. No shame, no stigma, no empty stomachs. Connecticut has one of the best school systems in the country, but that is not true of all of our schools. In the coming days I will sign an executive order to create the Blue-Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education. A bottoms up look at education with a focus on an updated funding strategy, the foundation grant, and making sure more resources go to the classroom.” So where does the money come from to pay for these "free school breakfast" programs? Your IPO profits from SEMA 4? Some new “Ned Deal” funneled through “Connecticut Innovations?” A new "breakfast tax"? Don't most schools in the state already offer both free breakfast and lunch for needy students? Couldn't the state save money and take out feminine hygiene products out of boys’ bathrooms in state schools? (This last statement now qualifies me to be called pejorative epithets not suitable for a respectable article).

Contrary to the deluded Governor, Connecticut still has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt with interest thereupon, along with massive unfunded liabilities. To help voters forget about these horrors, Ned proposes to give every taxpayer a $200 tax rebate, or a $400 rebate per family. Rough estimates are that this pseudo-feel-good maneuver will cost the state $500 million dollars. But why hasn't Connecticut still recovered from the recession of 1989? As I stated in January 2026; “The true reality is that Connecticut still suffers from many of the same problems it has faced since 1989. The economy in particular is consistently ignored and overlooked, as it has been for more than 35 years. Connecticut has never recovered economically since that recession of 1988-89. According to the September jobs report published in December, Connecticut is losing jobs. The state ranks 50th in payroll growth from 1989 to 2025 and is one of only three states that have failed to fully recover from the Great Recession”. (https://swickspeak.blogspot.com/2026/01/connecticut economy stinks so let’s make.html) 

But as ridiculous and horrible as this all is, one quote from Ned takes the prize for buying the liberal vote: "That young mother shot twice in the head in Minneapolis the White House called her a domestic terrorist; she reminded me of my daughter. " Ned does your daughter protest at anti ICE demonstrations and tries to drive into them with her SUV while they are doing their job? If so, you have a lot of problems with your family that certainly you are not letting on about.

This State of the State speech summarizes the true lies and deceptions that the Connecticut Democrat Party has been so well known for, for many years. Year in and year out, state spending and debt increases. Year in and year out Connecticut's economy ranks last and or in the bottom five in the country in economic growth, development, business friendliness, etc. Year in and year out Connecticut ranks as one of the highest taxed states in the country. Maybe this year Connecticut taxpayers will wake up to see that they are not better off than they were in any year from 1989 to 2026 with a government dominated by an omnipotent and corrupted Connecticut Democrat Party and they will finally see through the false claims, lies and prevarications leading Connecticut to be the economic and social disaster that it now is.

News Flash: Connecticut Has A Bad And Incompetent Government

 Something is very obvious in Connecticut. Connecticut has a bad and incompetent government. Bad in the sense that it no longer represents its constituents. It no longer represents right versus wrong, truth versus lie, and fact versus fiction. It has produced many different incoherent, blabbering pieces of rhetoric to keep up a fictional lie of how well Connecticut is governed by the Connecticut Democrat Party. And the tipping point has been reached for Connecticut Taxpayers who are now seeing through the charade.

Connecticut has had bad government for many years, but ever since the devastation and oppression of the Covid-19 regime, the acceleration from bad to abysmal has become much more acute. Finger pointing has been perfected to an art form in the state by the Democrat Party. But have no fear. The Democrat Party takes no responsibility for the issues that are facing Connecticut in 2025, but of course, it never has.

The Horrors of Bad Government in Connecticut include (but are not limited to),

Excessively high local and state taxes inhibiting economic growth and economic and personal freedoms.

Excessively high insurance costs for auto insurance due to the rampant thefts and hijackings of vehicles, especially by repeat offenders along with the horrific mismanagement of residential crimes and the mishandling of natural disasters.

Excessively prohibitive costs of doing business in the state due to a myriad of complex rules, regulations and laws that increase the costs of doing business in the state and eliminate profitability for small businesses. (And as a tutorial of things to come with respect to the impending and disastrous "bipartisan" mismanagement of Artificial Intelligence for state businesses, please watch my friend Tony De Angelo’ THIRTY WITH TONY show of May 22, 2025, dealing with the horrors of “Senate Bill 2”

THE SHOW STUPID POLITICIAN TRICKS PART 2 THIRTY WITH TONY 5 22 2025 )

THE SHOW STUPID POLITICIAN TRICKS PART 2 THIRTY WITH TONY 5 22 2025

 

A constant illegal drug problem further exaggerated by the legalization and taxation of marijuana, while “psychedelic mushrooms” are moving from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box as the next legal drug of choice.

An irrational and sickening excess of the promotion of the harm and exploitation of children through sex changes, boys playing in girls’ sports, pornographic reading materials in libraries in schools, and the condemnation of parents having responsibility of their children. 

This should sicken everyone in the state.

The state's takeover of local zoning laws and regulations. (Communities be damned).

Fiscal guardrails that are shunned and destroyed by the Democrat Party.

No acknowledgement whatsoever of the 100 to 150 Billion Dollars of short- and long-term liabilities and unfunded liabilities weighing on the state. (Hint: The celebrated and oft-repeated Fiscal Guardrails do not even touch this grievous liability).

The state’s complete lack of transparency in how and why it governs and lack of disclosure of whosoever else may be involved.

A state ethics department that one would compliment to call it a joke.

 The continuing saga of the legal and ethical quagmire of Governor Lamont, the self-deals of the Lamont family, and the highly questionable (and non-transparent) dealings of First Lady Ann Lamont in matters of state government.

A bloated state bureaucracy of excessive and overpaid state employees, state commissioners, state assistant to the assistant employees, state departments, state committees and mythical "nonprofits" that are secret from the public view and whose dealings are intentionally exempted from Freedom of Information, (such as ADVANCE CT where state business policy involving Eversource, Yale, and other big players is engineered under shroud of secrecy, citizen be damned).

This is not the way Connecticut should be governed. This is not the way the Grand Duchy of Fenwick should be governed. This is bad government in action. This is worse than "Lord of the Flies". And what can be done about it? Can the Connecticut Taxpayer trust anyone in their government? Why should they? Maybe it is time to start all over in the state.  Connecticut's problems never go away nor does the constant spending of Connecticut Taxpayers monies resolve anything. The passing of greater laws does not resolve anything but create added benefits for the masses to benefit a privileged few. Connecticut has the same problems year in and year out. All of the excessive laws and excessive taxation just further exaggerates the same old problems.  Nothing changes. Why is that difficult to see in plain sight?

Term limits, spending caps, administrative salary reductions, and an overhaul of state laws/regulations and ethical politicians would be a great start in ending Connecticut's bad government. But in a state that has veered this excessively to the socialist left it is not possible. Or is it? Time will tell as the stale incoherent leftists and their incoherent and incompetent rhetoric fall on the deaf ears of the Connecticut Taxpayers and they start to scream loudly about this mockery masquerading as government.