Archive for 'State Government' Category
Who Benefits From Rising Gas Prices?
20 November 2007Is it any wonder we just can’t seem to find a solution to higher gas prices?
Last — but by no means least -– is the sizeable chunk of gasoline spending that goes to your government, the second biggest beneficiary of rising gasoline prices. First, you pay 18.4 cents a gallon in federal excise tax. States […]
A bridge collapsed. More money must be spent here, so did the State do it’s job?
10 August 2007What are the functions of government?
A reasonable list would include maintenance of our common areas and infrastructure. So why when a bridge collapses half a country away is it required that another $150 million or so be spent here in Connecticut?
I have two explanations:
1) We are reactionary as a state and there is […]
Connecticut is a “flee” state
30 July 2007Sometime in the last 15 years Connecticut became a flee state. Which means if a criminal breaks into your house you must flee even if it means jumping out the back window.
The right to protect home and life should be restored to the citizens.
When I got my pistol permit it was explained to me […]
Is Corn Evil?
16 July 2007Is the epidemic in obesity in large part caused by corn?
The rise of the use of fructose seems to mirror the rise in childhood obesity. Sugar is Sugar, right? At least one researcher disagrees.
Sweetener fructose used in almost every processed food we eat and is usually derived from corn, why …. because it’s […]
The RTBA: Read the Bills Act
7 June 2007The RTBA: Read the Bills Act
http://www.downsizedc.org/read_the_la…_laws.shtml
would make it a requirement that proposed legislation be posted to the internet for 7 days prior to a vote in Congress and that the bills actually be read in Congress before the vote. Sounds like a good idea. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible to have gargantuan complicated bills […]
“This is a very fair, progressive, and wonderful tax package for the state of Connecticut,” Daily said
30 May 2007Cue movie scene, Democrats running through meadows of flowers carrying large baskets of cash and throwing the money to lines of adoring peasants.
Cue music, Twlight Zone theme. Now in your best Rod Sterling voice, “Contemplate this, WHAT PLANET ARE THEY ON?”. It is so wonderful, full of love and caring and compassion and […]
To Arms!, To Arms!
29 May 2007We have but a week left for the state houses to finish up and adjourn, please pray for a swift end to this years excuse for state government and get them home where the damage they can inflict is limited.
There is no budget. But we have discussed ad-nausea, elephants, gays, bottles and still the […]
3% Is Not 2.5%
4 April 2007I’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 […]
The Rise of Parentalism
30 March 2007Myths of the Nanny State
by Radley Balko
From the Cato Institute: In a recent paper published in the journal Public Choice, “Afraid to be Free: Dependency as Desideratum,” Nobel Prize–winning economist James Buchanan composes a new taxonomy of socialist threats to liberty. Buchanan argues that the conventional threats to freedom from managerial socialism (central planning) and […]
MSN Money - The best and worst states for taxes
26 March 2007This 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%). […]