Connecticut

[MilSpecs]

That's great, be somewhere else after 8pm.

Wonderful. I’ve been walking around downtown after dark all fall. Now I know why I never see anyone else.

Like I said it's a county seat so everybody is either a bureaucrat or has their hands out. Good ol fashioned rent seeking. When the offices close everybody goes away.

Who lives in all those expensive historic houses on State Street and the street in back of it? You don’t normally see those prices and those kind of homes in a high crime area. They’re building and rehabbing too. And all the tourists on the weekends. Is the town in the process of gentrification?

[C-Mag]

Liberals fleeing their progressive urban bastions for lower taxes?

Yep, when I retire. I might as well get some of my money back - I subsidized the lower tax states for a long time. Most of them are fiscally happy to see the northeast retirees heading their way anyway - we bring money into their economy and don’t burden their school systems. Anyways, the places I’d likely move are already blue or purple.

What happens when you run out of low tax and low regulatory states to move to?

I reject the notion that high tax states are subsidizing low tax states. We've found recently that California and other states were getting tax credits from the Federal government to pay high state taxes. https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commenta ... tax-states and that's only the tip of the iceberg. These high tax liberal states take from the rest of the country in a vast number of ways.

[clubgop]

Wonderful. I’ve been walking around downtown after dark all fall. Now I know why I never see anyone else.

Like I said it's a county seat so everybody is either a bureaucrat or has their hands out. Good ol fashioned rent seeking. When the offices close everybody goes away.

Who lives in all those expensive historic houses on State Street and the street in back of it? You don’t normally see those prices and those kind of homes in a high crime area. They’re building and rehabbing too. And all the tourists on the weekends. Is the town in the process of gentrification?

Need to see a map, you might be getting into the township at that point.

[The Conservative]

https://www.theday.com/op-edguest-opini ... pCn-0_3AtQ


What happens when state tax increases kill disposable income and cause home foreclosures on a large scale? I mean, how high can the DNC realistically raise taxes before complete economic collapse?

My prediction:

Democratic state governments are going to try to create a soft communist wall to keep tax payers in the state by imposing huge penalties for selling homes and moving out of the state.

California probably will be first, but perhaps it will be Connecticut. Who knows. All I know is that the fatal flaw of the democratic scorched earth tax policy is that tax payers can opt out of these programs by leaving, which is why Detroit almost died as a city. We also are seeing them get increasingly tyrannical with targeted tax policies like the Amazon tax, for example.

CA already does. House tax increases to the year it’s sold. That is why people don’t buy and sell in CA if they help it.

[MilSpecs]

What happens when you run out of low tax and low regulatory states to move to?

I reject the notion that high tax states are subsidizing low tax states. We've found recently that California and other states were getting tax credits from the Federal government to pay high state taxes. https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commenta ... tax-states and that's only the tip of the iceberg. These high tax liberal states take from the rest of the country in a vast number of ways.

The numbers don’t lie. Every year there’s a list of states that get the most and the least back from the federal government. And obviously states with low incomes don’t have the money to send. Someone has to subsidize them or they’d be third world.

You’re confusing personal preference with reality. Cities have always been the engines of the country, whether or not you, I, or anyone else likes them. It’s where the brilliant minds flock to, where the ports (trade avenues) are, where the major institutions of learning and medicine usually are, and the business and cultural hubs. And none of us can live without those things, because we all benefit from them. Countries without vibrant major cities are not places you’d want to live.

[Fife]

Vibrant

[Zlaxer]

https://ctmirror.org/2018/11/15/malloy- ... ct-budget/


Here it comes......

Other deficit-mitigation options Malloy cited in his transition budget include: canceling tax cuts; shifting teacher pension costs onto municipalities; maintaining a new hospital taxing arrangement that leverages big federal aid; trimming employee ranks through attrition; reducing municipal aid “without harming our poorest communities;” and cutting health care programs.

The state, not the towns, negotiates the teacher contracts....now they're going to stick the towns with the bill...which means mill rate increases...This will break more than a few families....and it will crash housing prices...which have been declining for the last three years in CT.

And that last part....about not harming poorest communities means a direct transfer of wealth from towns to cities via taxes...they're taking and taking and taking.....Fuck these Marxist thieves!

People are already leaving...number of for sale signs around me keeps going up....many went up day after election...

I'm being serious...will the state and fed take 80% of my family income? We're at about 60% right now...and the family budget is tight...won't be spending much outside of necessities anytime soon.

[MilSpecs]

Vibrant

As in a lot going on in the major fields of endeavor: business, medicine, transportation, education, trade, etc., etc.

Do you really not want the benefits of those fields for your family?

[Zlaxer]

Lolz - MilSpec is about to get fucked....and she don't even know it....


Even if states like CT takes the middle class into extinction, they're isn't enough to cover the pensions....hope you're squiring away supplies...CT is going to implode in next 5 years...People will just walk away from $250K+ mortgages on homes worth $100K.....they'll move out of state and not say a word...Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven will all go belly up....shit...when is the last time anyone actually saw a State Trooper on 84? State can't afford to pay cops....crime rate is going up in all major cities and roads are now like Mad Max....

[Fife]

Muh roads.