AFFORDABILITY

- When Do We Say Enough?

I've never voted to raise your taxes, impose tolls, or slam you with fees that are nothing more than another way to tax you. I never will.  Balanced budgets, accountability, and a government that works for the good of all its taxpayers, not just a privileged few, matters deeply to me.  I've proposed multiple, vetted, balanced no-tax-increase budgets that fully fund education, human services & infrastructure. 

My opponent has voted to raise your property taxes in every town and/or school budget since first elected in 2013.  Ten times.  Raise your hand if you want to promote that credential to the statehouse. 

One of my earliest mentors impressed upon me a fundamental lesson:  "Your budget is your promise".  That means you keep your word, work with transparency, within your means, and don't take from Peter to pay Paul.  I've proposed multiple, balanced, no-tax-increase state budgets that honestly, fully fund education, human services, infrastructure, and the humanities without relying on accounting tricks, or favoring special interests.

You have a right to expect our state to plan, operate, and spend your tax dollars responsibly.  You deserve a representative in Hartford who's focused on moving our state forward, improving your quality of life, and creating opportunity for the next generation, paid for with revenue generated by economic growth driven by affordable policy that attracts families, employers, and private investment. This adds up to a "state of opportunity"  Opportunity to live, learn, work, advance, earn a good living and and thrive, AFFORDABLY.  

Higher taxes, and a government that mandates costly policy, like those now dominating the exploding public benefits charges on our electric bills, are a new way CT Democrats have found to tax us - mandating new costs without public hearings or a budget vote by the legislature, like they did in May, 2024.  It hit your utility bills in August.   

Remember what my mentor taught me?  "Your budget is your promise".  Well, your government broke it's promise by working outside the 2024 budget, moving instead to an "appropriations bill" to "repurpose" federal relief moneys to pay for its non-pandemic overspending, diverting federal pandemic relief funds away from paying the public benefits accrual, and had your electric utility bill you directly. 

That's "Taxation Without Representation", and not very transparent.