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Your Neighbor Is Making Your House More Expensive

I’ve seen this first hand, the cost of housing is being driven up by all those various commissions and agencies your town and state just love to have. All those people who just love to tell you what you can and can’t do with your property have the end effect of raising the cost […]

Democrat Presidental Debate or How Many Of You Send Your Children To Public Schools?

Of all the questions asked two were most revealing and the answers very telling.
1) How many of you send your kids to public schools?
Most said “no”.
2) How many flew here on private or chartered jets?
Most said “yes”.
These questions and answers to me highlight the vast gulf that exists between us the governed and them the […]

3% Is Not 2.5%

I’m not sure whether to call Rell’s 3% annual spending cap proposal a smoke screen, a diversion or a very cynical ploy to confuse. From what I’ve seen recently I am less and less impressed with the Rell, more cynical and more inclined to believe there is little substance here.
Rell’s proposal, which is probably in […]

MSN Money - The best and worst states for taxes

This article was a tip from a reader, THANKS! Great article. Although I must say, I am depressed.
The whole article can be read at MoneyCentral.
The state that pays the most in combined state, local and federal taxes, per capita, is Connecticut (35.9%), followed by New York (35.1%), New Jersey (34.3%) and Washington (33.7%). […]

TAX DAY AT THE CAPITOL

Sorry for the font color, I don’t have time to edit the file, evidently the FCTO uses a canned web design program with hundreds of font markups which would have to be edited one at a time as found.  This press release needed to get out now.
From: Susan Kniep, President
The Federation of […]

But Wait There’s More, Connecticut is #2 In Property Taxes

This is getting to be a bad joke.
I promise you I will search for a form of taxation that we are NOT in the top 10 for.
According to the The Tax Foundation’s study on property taxes the state of Connecticut is #2 per capita. #1 is New Jersey and they are taking steps to reduce […]

Tax Revolt Shell Game.

Be very very careful of Jim Amann House Speaker. Has the leopard changed his spots or is he carefully measuring his words to tell certain people what they want to hear? I have read of Speaker Amann’s relutance to increase education spending as much or as fast as Gov Rell has proposed and I have […]