How is Connecticut doing? Let’s examine some statistics:
In 2008, Connecticut had the third-highest local and state tax burden in the U.S., trailing only New York and New Jersey, according to the Tax Foundation. And this was before the huge two-year tax increase recently signed by Governor Malloy.
 
Connecticut has the highest net tax-supported debt of any [...]

This week legislative Republicans in the General Assembly unveiled budget a proposal or as I like to call it “The People’s Budget.”
It’s a two-year plan to balance Connecticut’s budget without increasing taxes on everyday goods and services such as gasoline, back-to-school clothing, non-prescription drugs and haircuts.
This budget contains no new taxes and in fact protects [...]

The first decade of the 21st century has not been kind to the State of Connecticut.   During the first nine years of the decade, CT population grew at one third of the US’s growth rate.  The real killer for the state was the fact that there were fewer Non-Farm Jobs available from Years 2000 to [...]

Hey buddy, want to invest in a Borders Book store.  This seems to be the push from President Obama, Governor Malloy, and our local town leaders.  Sure they know we are tapped out.  Sure they know that they have maxed out the credit card.  But they need to pay their supporters.
What they don’t say,  is [...]

As a native of Fairfield County, I remember our region as a place where the American dream was alive and well — where families built bright futures and the economy thrived. Today, all of that is at stake. Unemployment hovers at nearly 10%, valuable jobs are moving out of state at an unprecedented rate, and [...]

Our state’s Comptroller, the officer charged with keeping and reporting on Connecticut’s financial books, just issued her annual review of our state’s fiscal condition. Low and behold, Comptroller Nancy Wyman concluded that we closed out our ledgers on June 30 with a $449 million budget surplus.
Technically, Nancy Wyman is right; Connecticut has [...]

Soon it will be Labor Day, and millions of Americans will experience the Democrats’ stimulus program as they hit the highways plastered with stimulus signs reading — “Expect Delays.”  From California to the New York Island thousands of good Democrat supporting, union dues paying, Americans have found meaningful work digging holes and filling them back [...]

By Peter Gomez (BOF Chair) and Jill Bornstein (BOF Vice Chair)
Recent headlines seemed to dismiss a 2% long range spending cap for town and school expenses as a potential myth, however, managing town budget increases to 2% or below remains a goal of many Board of Finance members given the local and regional fiscal landscape [...]

When the will of the people is ignored, there are consequences. Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves for not heeding this truth come November. Americans nationwide are outraged at the arrogance of the Democrat majority in Washington and it is now time for the people of Connecticut to take stock [...]

Voters are expressing considerable concern regarding the proposed budgets for the Town of Ridgefield as well as the Board of Education. In its continuing efforts to reach out to Ridgefielders to understand their needs and concerns, the Ridgefield Republican Town Committee has conducted a poll on these two budgets. When asked if they will vote [...]