Tolls. Why I Oppose them Like the Plague, Continue to Fight & Say "Over My Dead Body!"

A Toll is a Tax and, as Connecticut taxpayers, we can't afford more.  Actually, we passed the tipping point long ago, under the tax & spend policies of the Malloy administration and complicit career-politicians.

Their repeated, large 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 to have not recovered the jobs it lost in the Great Recession. The ONLY one.

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. 

That's a bunch of malarkey.  It's a matter of choices.  Do you want their (and my opponent's) status quo, feeding at the government trough on your credit card? Or will you support my efforts to save Connecticut and make it affordable again by reforming the way our state works?

There are waste and duplicated services to eliminate.  There are 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!

If you're left asking; "Then how will we pay for repairing & upgrading our roads, if not with tolls?"  The cash is already there, in the form of fuel taxes, fees and licencing, except a portion of it is being "swept" to the state's "General Fund" to pay for non-transportation big-government programs and patronage.  Eliminate that sweep and bring waste & legacy-spending under control and we can eliminate operating deficits and prioritize our roads again. 

Yes, the money my liberal colleagues want for tolls already exists in your taxes.  It's a matter of priorities.

 - Mitch