Mandated Leave to Spur Innovation and Fewer Jobs
The message to cost-conscious small businesses is crystal clear. It does not matter to the state that such employers already battle some of the highest energy costs in the country, an expensive and inefficient transportation system, high labor costs, and a heavy tax burden. The State of Connecticut is enthusiastic about creating new obstacles to growth, rather than tearing down the old ones.
» Read MoreProvoking Discussion on Afghanistan
The contest for the 2012 US Senate contest is already heating up between Democrats Susan Bysiewicz and Rep. Chris Murphy. The two traded barbs over their Afghanistan policy this week on the heels of Mr. Murphy’s trip to that country to visit with troops and assess the situation.
» Read MoreShooting War in Afghanistan, Political Battle in CT
This is what it looks like when two knife fighters duel. US Rep. Chris Murphy and former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz traded barbs this week in the first direct sparring of the 2012 US Senate campaign over the war in Afghanistan. Ms. Bysiewicz favors “immediate withdrawal” while Mr. Murphy, who is just returned [...]
» Read MoreLittle Sympathy for Sinners on Taxes
They don’t engender much sympathy and they don’t have a public relations firm lobbying for their interests, but the payers of Connecticut’s so-called “sin taxes” are footing the bill for the government’s fiscal trainwreck. The recent budget agreement signed by Gov. Malloy hits hard at the state’s cigarette-smoking, beer-swilling sinners.
» Read MoreCrime and Punishment
Senator Edith Prague’s suggestion for imposing medieval justice on the Cheshire killers captured headlines yesterday, but the award for draconian rhetoric on crime and punishment still has to go to AFSCME Council 4 for their new radio advertisement. Amid a background of wailing sirens, the ad warns listeners that, “2,000 inmates and counting have been [...]
» Read MoreMalloy the ‘Anti-Christie’
National Review’s Brian Bolduc wrote about Connecticut’s budget battle and the Yankee Institute’s role in fighting for lower taxes, restored balance between private and public sector wages, and smaller government in Connecticut.
» Read MoreStating the Obvious
The deed is done. Two and a half months after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled his budget proposal to balance the state’s $3.2 billion budget deficit, the Democratic majorities in each body voted to copy the Governor’s homework instead of doing their own. Though most of the focus will return to the Governor today as [...]
» Read MoreDemocracy If You Can Catch It
After two months of town hall meetings, discussions, and legislative jockeying, the past two weeks have unfolded with almost breathtaking speed. Barely a day after the General Assembly’s Republican caucuses unveiled their alternative budget that eliminated the state’s $3.3 billion deficit without tax hikes, the Governor and Democratic leaders in the legislature had their own announcement: a budget deal that maintained most of Governor’s framework plus a small legislative wishlist.
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