[9YearLurker]

I’ll be leaving soon!

[The Toll]

Why are they “cash strapped”?

[Raycpa]

CT raised gas taxes to replace tolls. I assume they will reduce gas tax when they bring tolls back.

[BBQToadRibs]

Seems dead wrong that citizens are taxed to build roads, and then taxed to use the roads they themselves funded. Double whammy. I’d be PO-ed and voting with my feet, taking my tax dollars with me.

[fruser1]

“The answer is...highway tolls.”

The answer is to eliminate social programs.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The ultimate Democrat plan is to mandate every vehicle be equipped with GPS transponders and charge you for every mile you drive.

[Jim Noble]

I don’t know what has happened to Connecticut.

When I was a kid in NYC, people moved there because there was no income tax and everybody was a Republican.

I moved to New England in 1980, but frequently traveled to visit left behind family for the next 35 years.

Every year it got worse. Nice little rest areas along I-84 and I-91, or the Merritt Parkway, became ghetto. Stop in Vernon for lunch? No way. Downtown Hartford, where my grandpa and uncle used to do insurance? Forget it.

How did this happen???

[metmom]

The money will never make to road repair.

NY has been scamming people out of money for the thruway for decades longer than it was supposed to.

It’s too much of a cash cow to pass up.

[Taxman]

Looks like you got out just in time!

[ConservaTeen]

Connecticut - Native American for 'Foolish people who vote for Foolish Liberals' 😀

[Chode]

like it would actually goto road maintenance, it'd go into the general fund to pay for everything BUT!

[bgill]

Is his limo exempt?

[Bonemaker]

"It is obvious a state’s business tax climate is in bad shape when it chases away a major employer to a neighboring state whose longtime nickname has been Taxachusetts. Yet this is where Connecticut now finds itself. General Electric GE +0%’s January 14 announcement that it is relocating its global headquarters from Fairfield, Conn. to Boston, Mass. is the latest example of how tax policy, and the electoral outcomes that direct it, are critical to a state’s economic health and competitiveness."

Forbes

[Deplorable American1776]

Connecticut in the 70s were business friendly. Headquarters were moving in and we had manufacturing plants. In the 1970, the Dems passed an income tax...it was repealed when Thomas Meskill became governor. Democrats were as conservative as Republicans (my friend’s mom was a state representative and the my state senator was a businessman. They were different parties.. friend’s mom was a R, the State Senator was a D, now liberals of both parties are ruining Connecticut, thou the Republicans are waking up...