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Dems choose high taxes while working families struggle in Connecticut
fairfieldcountybusinessjournal.com ^ | May 01, 06 | DebraLee Hovey

Posted on 05/06/2006 10:02:51 AM PDT by antonia

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1 posted on 05/06/2006 10:02:54 AM PDT by antonia
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..the liberal Democratic majority in the General Assembly almost always come down on the side of higher taxes.

Their reflexive opposition to cutting taxes was on display for all to see recently when they killed a Republican measure that would have lowered electricity bills for most ratepayers.
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The socialist Dems are making no bones about who and what they are. All-powerful socialist government, controlling the American polulace, their wealth and their destiny is their very Marxist goal. Taxation is their artery of continued existence -- being able to control and buy votes and the wealth and property of the public -- right out of the Communist Manifesto. No surprise.


2 posted on 05/06/2006 10:06:34 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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Democrats ALWAYS lie about cutting taxes pre-election... then ALWAYS raising them post-election.


3 posted on 05/06/2006 10:08:39 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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My little town in Arizona has been throroughly "Californicated" with McMansions, half-mil condos, etc. Not content to squander their own money, my new neighbors are busy squandering the public purse on every kind of stupid "improvement" they can possibly conceive. After four or five years, the vast majority of this mob move on to other "chic" communities, leaving behind a growing mountain of public debt and without an inkling of the damage their "contribution" has caused. Nauseating.


4 posted on 05/06/2006 10:09:48 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Join me! Every night I pray for Global Warming . (And I think it's beginning to work.))
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Bah. This "all taxes are bad" is just as stupid as Democrat's "all taxes are good".

The sole determining factor in judging a tax as good or bad should be whether or not a person enjoying government services is paying their proper share for the services they receive.

There should be no free-riders or government give-aways.
5 posted on 05/06/2006 10:12:46 AM PDT by mc6809e
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Thanks for this! I just fired off an email to the representative author complimenting her. Not that anything will change in this blue state, but I told her to keep up the good work....

Told her that it is not enough to say down here in Stamford that "at least we don't pay Westchester taxes...." anymore.

It's kind of like saying death by a thousand paper cuts is better than getting shot.


6 posted on 05/06/2006 10:14:53 AM PDT by GipperCT
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"For all their high-minded rhetoric about supporting middle-class and working families ... the liberal Democratic majority in the General Assembly almost always come down on the side of higher taxes."

Of course. "Tax the rich to feed the poor till there are no rich no more" only goes so far. Demonrat voters seem to forget that middle-income people are going to get nailed, and even though they pay a lower rate, it leaves less in absolute terms. When you want somebody else to pay for public purposes, you inevitably become that somebody else eventually.


7 posted on 05/06/2006 10:16:41 AM PDT by Felis_irritable
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People get the government they deserve,just keep voting them in folks!!


8 posted on 05/06/2006 10:20:40 AM PDT by Antique Gal (Antique Gal)
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Of course. "Tax the rich to feed the poor till there are no rich no more" only goes so far.

Actually it would be great if the Republicans gave the Democrats what they want. You'd have most of New England changing its mind about "taxing the rich".

The trouble is most people confuse wealth and income.

Rich Democrats are happy that most people have confused wealth with income because their income is small compared to their wealth.

I say give them what they want. Throw in a tax on intellectual property wealth, too. You'd see Hollywood changing its politics in a second.

9 posted on 05/06/2006 10:21:12 AM PDT by mc6809e
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I cannot begin to fathom the mindset of some people I knew in Connecticut.

After 25 years there, seeing and hearing them "denounce" tax cuts, rationalize tax increases, overlook pedophilia in their state representative, accept homosexual marriage, drive Volvos and Land Rovers while disparaging Ford and GM for their treatment of unions, lambast free enterprise, accept global warming as being caused by jet contrails and shouting "Bush lied" while fawning over all things Clintonian; I am so damn happy to be free of them.

Free at last!

Thank God Almighty!

With apologies and sympathies to those FReepers left behind in Connecticut.

10 posted on 05/06/2006 10:22:01 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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Democrats ALWAYS lie about cutting taxes pre-election... then ALWAYS raising them post-election.

Why are you looking at me?

11 posted on 05/06/2006 10:26:15 AM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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The rats can safely do what thew will with the peasantry in a blue state like Connecticut.
12 posted on 05/06/2006 10:39:16 AM PDT by mmercier (same as it ever was)
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There isn't a thing Democrats are not able to fix with higher taxes.
Problem is, they dig up a never ending array of problems in need of injustices, thereby killing the economy and moving us into Socio Land called Europe with 10% unemployment.
All gets equalized evenly poor, a dream come true for Dems.


13 posted on 05/06/2006 10:39:59 AM PDT by hermgem
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The big problem for Fairfield county is that we watch and read New York City news rather than keeping our eyes on whats going on in Hartford.
14 posted on 05/06/2006 10:40:11 AM PDT by joyhalcyon (Your conscious is the voice of God.)
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I am frustrated and puzzled by the Democrats' attitude toward a proposal that would have benefited almost all of their constituents.

It's easy. The Dems' constituents are either the people paying no taxes and getting all of the "services" or the people who pay some taxes and get it back 20-fold in the paychecks they receive working (hardly at all) for the state or municipalities.

15 posted on 05/06/2006 10:54:04 AM PDT by Dr.Syn
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Good Point


16 posted on 05/06/2006 10:54:24 AM PDT by GipperCT
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All libs have an innate inability to cut taxes. It's why they are libs. Cutting taxes goes against the grain of all big government libs who only want increased taxes...the better to run (and ruin) peoples lives.


17 posted on 05/06/2006 11:01:01 AM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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If you vote in any Politician that raises taxes then you get what you deserve. If your politician raises your taxes, fire his butt next election. Don't do like the fools in Conn. and keep hiring the same fools then bitch about high taxes.
Oh, by the way spending in this congress has been unbelieveable and high. And it is run by Republicans or is that RINOS?


18 posted on 05/06/2006 11:03:26 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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My chief complaint with apostles of gauche caviar is not their altruism or their expressions of guilt but their unwillingness to acknowledge that wealth plays a positive economic and social role in our society, that the taxation of wealth stifles useful economic activity and is just as likely to hinder the development of charitable enterprises. 

'Altruism', as practiced by the bureaucracy of the state most often fails at what it's announced intentions are. Most of our public programs serve only those who have been employed by the bureaucracy which rules the program. Take for example the tax free status of our institutions of 'higher' learning. For all their free moneys an institution such as Yale gives a place to Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, is now studying at Yale on a U.S. student visa. Large Bureaucracies Cannot Possibly Achieve their Goals

19 posted on 05/06/2006 11:06:07 AM PDT by tomatoealive (On a hot summer day in my garden, I picked a pretty, ripe, tomato and ate it there.)
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"Dems choose high taxes while working families struggle!"

If this is news in Connecticut, the people er sheeple there have been doing a very long Rip Van Winkle.

20 posted on 05/06/2006 11:10:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist homosexual lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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