http://cttaxed.com Taxes, Punishing Success, Rewarding Failure Thu, 08 May 2008 20:02:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, Connecticut you get to start working for your family and yourself today. Today is Tax Freedom Day, it's the day where you've finally worked enough to pay all your Federal, State and Local taxes. We in Connecticut have the honour of working longer than any other state in the ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/05/08/happy-tax-freedom-day/ Speaker of the House Jim Amann is retiring to pursue the Governorship. Normally I welcome liberals tilting at windmills but this time less so. His most likely replacement Rep. Chris Donovan of Meriden has a resume that strikes fear in to the hearts of taxpayers through out the ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/30/the-man-who-would-be-king/ Given the gross financial mis-management of Connecticut does this come as a surprise? Beat businesses out of the state, the financial engine of all our wealth. Squeeze taxpayers with the highest taxes in the land. Refuse to acknowledge the economic reality by lowering taxes and spending and at some point the peasants just ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/29/ct-top-ten-in-foreclosures/ Not only new jobs but we are a world leader in this new aviation segment. Which to certain Government leaders is just a new opportunity to raise taxes. I'm talking about the new very light jet market. A number of airframers, Cessna, Piper, Eclipse, Cirrus and many other smaller ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/28/lets-kill-a-growing-industry-providing-new-jobs/ A milestone here at the CtTaxed headquarters. We have reached our 70,000th visitor from somewhere deep in Pennsylvania. Lately more and more of our readership is non-Connecticut based. Especially for articles on National politics with the keyword "Obama". Only glad to help! I will continue a heavy Connecticut focus, ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/24/milestone-70000th-visitors/ With the elections looming it is time to frame the debate. I'll be emailing this Bill of Rights to all running for office and asking them to take the pledge, the results will be posted and have a special link on this website. Including all those who did not respond. Clearly our ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/24/taxpayer-bill-of-rights-2/ Manufacturing employment did hit a peak and then begin a steady decline. The problem is that the peak was in 1979, 15 years before NAFTA came into force. The long-term decline of American manufacturing jobs has much more to do with technological change than with trade. We’re producing more stuff with ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/18/obamas-willful-disregard-of-the-facts-or-poor-command-of-economics/ New Jersey tried a Millionaire's Tax, only problem is they, the Millionaires moved. Funny thing about the well to do, they have the resources to move. They tend not to be tied to a physical locale as wage or salary earners are. "People picked up and moved," Jack Meola, ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/17/millionaires-tax-they-moved/ The insidious thing about a delivery tax is that it just keeps giving or taking. Especially if your supplier or customer is based in Connecticut. The Delivery Tax penalizes Connecticut based companies from doing business with other Connecticut based companies and will force work out of the state. Consider the following. If I ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/16/democrat-delivery-tax-a-tax-upon-tax/ Three states will have to wait until May to celebrate their state-specific Tax Freedom Days: Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. Although they have high state-local taxes too, the main culprit is the progressive federal income tax. States with large metropolitan areas offer higher-paying jobs, and as a result, many ... http://cttaxed.com/2008/04/15/get-back-to-work-more-taxes-to-pay/