The CT Chamber supported the state income tax 25 years ago. The Rockford Illinois Chamber supported raising the property tax for the schools.
Hey guys, what happened to 800 BILLION dollar stimulus infrastructure fund Obama used back in 2009? Even IF we needed to build up the infrastructure, this is the WRONG guy to hand the checkbook to.
Oh, and we’re broke.
Here is what happened to that $800 Billion:
This was just two fiscal quarters in Massachusetts, stimulus money going to pay for teacher’s unions healthcare benefits in one very wealthy town in Massachusetts:
FY 2010 Q2
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH Health Insurance premiums for district employees $1,184,601
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH School employees health insurance payments (Apr-Jun) $382,238
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP 4th quarter FY09 health insurance premiums $265,251
FY2010 Q3
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH School employees health insurance payments (Apr-Jun) $382,238
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH Health Insurance premiums for district employees $1,184,601
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP FY10 health insurance premiums $183,765
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP 4th quarter FY09 health insurance premiums $26,5251
MINUTEMAN-NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP Health Insurance Trust $241,820
MINUTEMAN/NASHOBA HEALTH Emp por health insurance premiums for school employees $18,8029
Multiply this by every town, city, and state, a million this quarter, a million that quarter, and “pretty soon you are talking real money.”
I might be willing to accept additional taxes for roads and bridges in the same way I might once have, like Ronald Reagan, supported immigration reform.
But after having the football pulled away again, and again, and again, I won’t be fooled again. They say they will raise the gas tax to support the repair of “crumbling infrastructure” (how many times have we heard THAT phrase?) but we all know it will be funneled to unions and totally useless liberal boondoggles. They might even, with a straight face, send it directly to ISIS to build mosques in the Middle East.
So, no. We aren’t buying it from this leftist tool of what was once a useful organization.
23 years ago and also 43 years ago. Also, it was the Connecticut Business and Industry Association (merger of the CT Chamber and the CT Manufacturers’ Association). God bless you and yours!