 DrStrangeTechnically feasiblePremium
join:2001-07-23
West Hartford, CT
kudos:1 | reply to pandora
Re: [RANT] Toll bill approved! The only time I've ever seen a tax reduced was when Governor Lowell Weicker [with the help of the legislature] enacted the state income tax. The sales tax was 8% before the income tax. Weicker wanted it cut to 4.5%. The legislature cut it to 6%. |
|
 PeteC2Got Mouse?Premium,MVM
join:2002-01-20
Bristol, CT
kudos:5
 ·Comcast
 ·AT&T Yahoo
1 edit | said by DrStrange:The only time I've ever seen a tax reduced was when Governor Lowell Weicker [with the help of the legislature] enacted the state income tax. The sales tax was 8% before the income tax. Weicker wanted it cut to 4.5%. The legislature cut it to 6%. Yep, but considering that 2% "cut" was at the cost of having a state income tax, again, that was no real cut at all, rather an additional source of revenue that will never go away...
In fact, the sales tax may indeed be back on the rise, it is one of the measures being seriously considered...and my wife and I pay a pretty hefty state income tax to CT every year.
I am not arguing the various merits of an income tax versus sales tax...but I would have been more content had they replaced one with the other, rather than having both. The cost of living in this state compared to the services received is not a very good value whatsoever!
BTW, some may remember Weicker fondly...not I! He was a blow-hard and a great revisionist of history...he thought nothing of saying one thing, doing another, and acting indignant and offended when it was brought to his attention! Every once and awhile, someone dusts him off and asks his opinion about the current state of affairs in CT, of which he could really care less...and he always has some bombastic B.S. comment...trying to remind everyone how he "saved" CT from some grisly fate...
--
Deeds, not words |
|
|
|
 RungelRun A Mile Live AwhilePremium
join:2001-12-05
CT
·AT&T DSL Service
| said by PeteC2 
said by DrStrange:
BTW, some may remember Weicker fondly...not I! He was a blow-hard and a great revisionist of history...he thought nothing of saying one thing, doing another, and acting indignant and offended when it was brought to his attention! Every once and awhile, someone dusts him off and asks his opinion about the current state of affairs in CT, of which he could really care less...and he always has some bombastic B.S. comment...trying to remind everyone how he "saved" CT from some grisly fate...
[/BQUOTE :I agree.. What really got me at the time was the Kennedy's giving him some big honor. I forgot was it was now.. But it had to do with getting Conn out of it's hole.. So they shoved it up ours. --
'rocking the awakening mind'!
|
|
pandoraPremium
join:2001-06-01
Outland
kudos:1 Reviews:
 ·ooma
·Google Voice
·Future Nine Corp..
·Comcast
| said by Rungel:I agree.. What really got me at the time was the Kennedy's giving him some big honor. I forgot was it was now.. But it had to do with getting Conn out of it's hole.. So they shoved it up ours. Our experience with the Connecticut income tax, the state sales tax, and now the proposed toll increases should warn us that government will always take more whenever it can.
Many seem to advocate for a flat tax, or a VAT tax. If these are ever implemented, I can assure everyone they will be in addition to income, sales, gas, other taxes and tolls. Anyone who thinks a new tax will come in and get rid of the old taxes is dreaming IMO.
It appears our fearless legislative leadership held a hearing about tolls in Waterbury, a safe distance from Danbury and Greenwich. They convinced themselves that a toll will not result in any increased traffic delay. Only in government could a consultant making such a claim not be laughed off a podium.
Anyway the story is here - »www.rep-am.com/News/413228.txt
The next step seems to be to wait for May 21 and see if it is introduced to the General Assembly for a vote.
--
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." |
|
