Archive for 'State Government' Category
“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%). […]
TAX DAY AT THE CAPITOL
21 March 2007Sorry 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 […]
Manufacturing vs Government Employment
11 March 2007This should come as no surprise to anyone, we have been adding Government Employees at a faster rate and now have more Government Employees than Manufacturing Employees.
In 1998 we had 25,000 more manufacturing employees than government employees, now in 2007 that has reversed, 53,000 more government employees than manufacturing and manufacturing jobs have declined by […]
This is just sad.
27 February 2007I was not going to write about Gov Rell tonight, but after reading her article in the Courant I changed my mind. I don’t get the Courant I cancelled my subscription years ago, I just could not take paying for ideas and opinions so alien to mine.
When the Governor made her pitch for more taxes […]
A Lot of People Work For The State
17 February 2007Actually 1 in 7 of us work for the state and local government.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (Federal Agency) says so.
This creates a voting class that has little incentive to keep spending down. Any possible incentive would only be apparent 2 minutes before the state goes bankrupt.
This is an entitled class that likely to be […]
Gross Fiscal Mis-Management
17 February 2007It is becoming clearer and clearer as I study this issue that this state has suffered from gross fiscal mis-management. This is the evidence.
1) #1 in Tax Burden.
2) #3 in Debt per capita
3) #48 in Funding Teacher’s Retirement (we owe 12 Billion)
4) 2nd Highest Electric Rates in the Country, only Hawaii is higher. 3X […]