Tax Increases? Over My Dead Body! (NEW)
I will not vote to raise your taxes or nail you with tolls for your trips to work or the store. Connecticut is already too costly a place to live or own a business. That's why folks and businesses have been moving out. It's sad but, we can fix it, if we have the political will to make some changes.
My opponent has stated she will "consider" any and all possible revenue sources. I guess she likes things the way they are.
How costly is it to be a taxpayer in CT, you may ask? We have the latest "Tax Freedom Date" in the nation, according to The Tax Foundation. In 2017, Connecticut taxpayers worked until May 21 to pay-off their government obligations. Yup, we're #50. By a lot. We pay taxes a full 8-days longer than #49, New Jersey and 10-days longer than #48, New York.
How can this be? With all our state collects from you in terms of Income Tax, Fuel Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Luxury Taxes, Gross Receipts Tax, Taxes on your heating oil, propane, electricity, dog-grooming, car washes, parking, cell phones and more, wouldn't you think we have enough?
Apparently not. Even with all these taxes squeezing every taxpayer in our state, Connecticut's still facing a $4.5-Billion (not a typo) biennial operating deficit for 2019-2020.
We do not have a revenue problem. Ours is a liberal spending problem.
I do not believe most of us can afford more. Actually, we passed the tipping point long ago, under the tax & spend policies of the Malloy administration and complicit career-politicians. The cumulative effect of their repeated tax increases have made our once prospering, growing state unaffordable for many. People and businesses are "voting with their feet" - moving out at a rate of nearly eighty (80) persons a day and CT is the only state in the nation with fewer jobs today than before the Great Recession.
Tax increases do not work in a state that spends and wastes too much of your money. It favors special interests - friends of the career politicians - and, by calling them "Fixed Costs", they want you to believe the only choice is to take more from you.
It does not have to be that way. We can choose to ditch their (and my opponent's) ways of feeding at the government trough on your credit card. Simply support my efforts to save Connecticut and make it affordable again by reforming the way our state works.
There's waste and duplicated services to eliminate. Efficiencies to be had. We can serve taxpayers better without raising taxes because you already pay too much and because we squander your hard-earned money!
We can make our state more efficient and work within a budget. There's already more per capita revenue in CT than anywhere else.
Say NO to new taxes and tolls. Vote for my Republican colleagues and I to stop the madness and make Connecticut affordable again.
It's a matter of priorities. Voting for me should be your top priority on November 6th.