Connecticut voters: Doing your patriotic duty
Yes. Taxes will be going up in Connecticut. No it is not the only option. But far too many people seem to have bought into the Biden Doctrine . You know, time to be patriotic, time to step to the table, time to help these legislators out of the mess they created. Listen for yourself. I’ve included a list of tax increases to salute.
Last night Dennis House and Channel 3 interview people on the street to get their reaction to Democrat Governor Dan Malloy’s solution to the $3.5 billion dollar deficit … raise taxes. For your listening enjoyment, you’ll cheer when you hear there are some who hear the call of the Tea Party and proclaim their displeasure publicly. You’ll cry when you listen tto those who still think paying “more” taxes is a fife and drum moment. My favorite is the student. Reality!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thrbyY2jMW4
On your feet! Get ready to do your patriotic duty. First … here’s how Governor Malloy will go after your middle class income:
Currently, most filers pay 3 percent on the first $10,000 earned for singles and $20,000 for couples. Nearly all income above that is taxed at 5 percent, though earnings above $500,000 for singles and $1 million for adults started facing a 6.5 percent rate last year.
Malloy’s plan sets a new top rate of 6.7 percent at the same parameters for the top earners.
But most of the changes, in terms of detail, occur at the middle-income levels.
- The 3 percent rate on initial earnings is gradually phased out, beginning with individuals earning more than $56,500 and couples topping $100,500. Those who don’t qualify for the 3 percent rate would face a 5 percent tax on initial earnings.
- The three existing tax brackets would be expanded to eight. Marginal rates for singles/couples would be 3 percent on earnings below $10,000/$20,000; 5 percent above $10,000/$20,000; 5.5 percent above $50,000/$100,000; 5.75 percent above $100,000/$200,000; 6 percent above $200,000/$400,000; 6.25 percent above $300,000/$600,000; 6.5 percent above $400,000/$800,000; and 6.7 percent above $500,000/$1 million.
- A middle-class property tax credit worth up to $500 would be eliminated.
Here’s a list of items you will now have to pay sales taxes on (click to enlarge):
My favorite line is “shared sacrifice”. We make the mess … you pay the price.
The Democratic governor spent much of last fall’s campaign pledging to follow a philosophy of “shared sacrifice” in solving what effectively amounts to the largest budget deficit in Connecticut history. And Occhiogrosso added that “the revenue increases are spread out. There is not one group that bears a disproportionate burden.”
My question to the Governor, with unemployment at 9% in the state doesn’t Malloy think the private sector has already felt enough pain. I will be interested in seeing where he intends to cut state spending, won’t you?
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The last comment on that video clip really gives me an insight to the thought process of the majority of Connecticut voters. They blindly agree to pay more taxes without demanding any accountability from the government. A major principle of the Tea Party movement is personal responsibility. That person on the clip who parroted the Democratic tax slogans just wants the government to do everything for them.
Also, there's a mistake in that report. Connecticut doesn't have "one of" the highest gas taxes in the country. It already is the highest after the gross receipts tax is factored in. Conn. base tax is 25 cents/gallon. Wisconsin is highest at 32.1, but the gross receipt tax of 7% makes our tax over 40 cents per gallon. Of course, that keeps increasing with higher wholesale prices to. I think the price at the pump should break down the cost of the fuel and taxes.
I told you so!
Hey! Connecticut. You voted in the tax and spenders, now you pay the price. Meanwhile, Connecticut businesses will suffer while Massachusetts and Rhode Island businesses prosper. Way to go, Democrats!
This state is killing the small business owners! As for me, I have had enough. I am taking my business and leaving the state. This will put 5 people out of work! Why can this government not just stop spending? What is the problem with looking at the Welfare spending, the extra spending for pet projects? Why not look at all the monies the taxpayers pay in pensions to those in government? There are so many ways to gain the revenue needed without taxing those who can least afford it!
Progressives look like most other Connecticut people. They walk, talk and breath the same air the rest of us breath. Most of the time they walk in an upright position, just like us, and at times, a slightly crooked smile can be seen in the corners of their mouths.
Unfortunately, uninformed Connecticut residents had no idea that the small circle they filled in, on that fateful day in November, would take them on a journey. A journey into the unknown. We will actually have to pay 3¢ more per gallon to take a long, dark ride… into the Twilight Zone. Do do do do …do do do do .
We need to get rid of public unions. The relationship that public union heads have with politicians is a corrupt conspiracy against the taxpayer. They swing elections, by hook or by crook, and they get rewarded for it, with our money.
It should be illegal for public workers to unionize (as it is in some other countries) for this exact reason. The population of Connecticut has remained pretty stagnant over the last thirty or forty years, but the number of public employees has grown sixfold.
The parasite is killing the host. Time to scrape it off.
I bet that everybody writing here pays all the sales taxes on internet services and out-of-state purchases.
Go to ctsunlight.org and hold on to your chair!
Hey You pinheads the taxpayers are taped out. You can't fill the well with the hose from the back of house.
That last character who's sympathetic to tax hikes bears a remarkable likeness to Terence Stamp's drag queen character in Priscilla Queen of the Desert! I'll bet the taxpayers are paying for the surgery and the hormones:)
That last character who's sympathetic to tax hikes bears a remarkable likeness to Terence Stamp's drag queen character in Priscilla Queen of the Desert! I'll bet the taxpayers are paying for the surgery and the hormones:)
Where to begin….
– Any more tax increases equals financial slavery for the middle class. The patriotic duty is to say NO ! to tax increases.
– If the state increases taxes, the taxpayers will leave. If the entitlements are cut and only the truely needy are cared for, then the freeloaders will leave for greener pastures. Seems a simple choice.
– I am old enough to recall when this state ran a balanced budget (surpluses even) without the income tax, lottery or casino money.
– It is time to take the wallet from the binge spenders. It seems the only reasonable way to stop the madness.
The people that are and have been running the state of ct are scarecrows —————-"if they only had a brain" The way it's run doesn't matter because they derive their living from it.
The democrat-run legislature in CT has lost the privilege of running this state with our tax dollars. And now malloy is going to make sure they have more tax dollars to burn. I'm so outta here. Democrats have ruined this state for generations to come, and the morons who voted for this guy and kept a dem. legislature are going to get exactly what they deserve. As for me and mine, we'll be gone, watching the state implode from afar.
Obviously winnie888 will not be alone. Those who can will leave and those who must stay will endure a state in continuing decline. What a legacy for the democrats of Corrupticut.
I am retired and my wife is a small businesswoman — we are getting hosed! A long-time friend and his wife just moved out of the state; they have had enough. Her small business was getting slammed with taxes, fees and incremental increases in existing costs.
Well Connecticut Dems, you voted for the Democrat deceit. Now we all have to pay for your actions at the polls (except for the unions). Malloy will never even remotely keep any of his campaign promises. On his first day as Governor he created two new commissioners, complete with staffs, to the tune of around a half million dollars each (when everything to support those commissioners is added together). Where is the leadership with that? And you can bet that the various unions will never feel a the bite of tax cuts and will only expand.
For examples, why do the medians of our highways need to be entirely mowed? Even if the grass hasn't grown? Why does the Education Oligarchy need dozens and dozens and dozens of "consultants" at about $85k each plus great benefits. Why do those "consultants" put on day-long workshops (for state school teachers and administrators) presenting dubious educational research (written in other states) that sound good but don't go anywhere because of a lack of follow-up and resources. By the way, all of those teachers who are out of their classrooms have to be covered with a substitute teacher at the cost of $150 or more. I could go on but you get the picture.
Here's a thought: Everyone who listens to Jim, write in and suggest a department or program that could be eliminated or shrunk. Write in about the waste you have witnessed (like the catered luncheons that the educational consultants presented with their "workshops)."
Want to save money? Eliminate the Education Department. Poof, gone; no one would miss them. Most people don't know that it exists or what the government employees do there. It's a mystery.
I love Connecticut, but the day is fast approaching when my wife and myself will not be able to afford living here.
Thanks, Democrats. Thanks for more taxes, fees, charges, etc., and more continued assaults on the citizens' wallets.
Where is the leadership?
Who was the Republican Governor who vetoed all those over the top budgets during the last 6 years? Was she the one who also bonded the State into oblivion?
I was going to hold my tongue on this one…. as a veteran, I find it insulting that I am being told to do my patriotic duty…. haven't we veterans already done that? and I would bet dollars to donuts those telling us to do so never served in our military.
your comments, concerns, snide remarks?
sammy22 – spot on !!
And remember – it was former Republican Lowell Weicker that bought us the income tax.
It is time to set aside our party blinders and really take a look around.
The die-hard liberals will never take their blinders off and take a look around, PatRiot. They are just too busy playing their blame game and would rather live in the past. Malloy's new "revenues" (as he's calling these outrageous tax increases) are going to financially cripple the citizens of CT. But he doesn't care. More tax payer "revenue" means he can keep the status quo and not have to make any painful decisions in regard to spending.
One more thing, Weicker was a member of A Connecticut Party…He was a former repub, but did not institute the state income tax as a Republican.
Sammy the democrats have had a veto proof majority for the last 6 years. They own the budget.
Hey, no fair raising the sales tax to 6.25%. We in Mass. got there first! I agree with TomL, the democrats in these liberal states have had the majority (sometimes veto-proof) yet they blame the Repbulicans even if they veto a budget multiple times. Just because a more moderate Repbulican helped to pass an awful budget does not mean we want Democrats to double down and increase taxes.
Hey there! Tell us all how many times the democrats had the opportunity to override a Governor's veto!
Thank you TomL. it's obvious that Sammy has no clue about Connecticut politics. Governor Rell tried everything possible to work with the Democrat General Assembly and they sat on their hands and let the budget grow and grow. Governor Rell worked on and presented budgets to no avail. As for posturing and vetoing a budget so that the General Assembly could over turn it, that's just a game and she had too much class to play with the nitwits.
near as i've been able to determine, there are only TWO patriotic duties for americans:
1. vote
2. stand and fight as required
taxation in it's present incarnation is merely an abuse of the public trust.
soooo. . .what to do? since the voting didn't work out so well, seems that the fall back is to stand and fight. time to ante up people.
Because Jefferson owned slaves and I've ordered from Amazon.com, I'm not allowed to have an opinion on this matter.
@Patriot Weicker was an Independent Governor
We will never know what would have happened if Gov. Rell had vetoed any budget, right Lynn? She did everything she could except use her power of the veto. That is not posturing, it's playing the game of "chicken". and lost.
what, precisely, would the power of veto have accomplished? an indication of her displeasure? when a stacked leg could override? for all intents and purposes, her not signing was a far more damning statement–let them own it.
I have a story about abuse….I know a teacher at Bailey Middle School in West Haven…who accrued so much vacation time…he took off every Friday…FOR OVER A YEAR!!!!
So, every Friday, the school had to have a sub, and pay for it.
With so much vacation time built into the year as it is, and so many days off, AND THE ENTIRE SUMMER OFF, why do teachers get to accrue huge number of vacation days? Of which, if they don't use, THEY GET PAID FOR!!!!!
Ah, kateinmaine…own it they do.
As I said previously, the democrats in this state have ruined CT for generations to come. They kept digging that hole & now they're blaming. Surrrre, it's Rell's fault. I like the stand and fight scenario, but I don't know how much fight is left in the people of CT. Some of us in CT stood up and fought the income tax and our elected officials ignored us and did what they wanted to anyway. Kinda like Obama/Democrats with O-Care. Seems to be a recurring theme: Dems get elected, they come up with hair brained ideas which are really just reconstituted failed policy from the past, market as new (I suspect O-care is really Hillary-Care in a different binder), ignore constituents who don't want to travel the path to destruction again and pass this crap without a thought for the consequences. CT is DOA with Malloy at the helm.