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Rell Talks Dems Into Helping Screw The Poor

by: BranfordBoy

Wed May 03, 2006 at 08:39:08 AM EDT

A Courant editorial on the new state budget explains how sausage gets made.

In the end, the Republican governor agreed to give up her campaign to phase out the death tax, which sends the well-to-do running to other states, if Democratic lawmakers gave up a tax credit to help the working poor.

There was one piece of unalloyed good news.

BranfordBoy :: Rell Talks Dems Into Helping Screw The Poor

Another loser was the governor's expensive plan to eliminate the property tax on cars, which wouldn't help the business climate.

Looks like poor little Tommy Hifliger (a real Greenwich businessman), will have to keep paying taxes on his 20 cars -- including one valued at $1.2 million, so grand that the Greenwich assessor is forced to carry it on the books as two separate vehicles because their computer system doesn't go to seven figures.

Jodi Rowland-Rell must be weeping that she was unable to bring relief to all the Little Tommies of Connecticut. How can those liberal Democrats sleep at night?

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Rell Talks Dems Into Helping Screw The Poor | 6 comments

How Many Terms (0.00 / 0)

We all already knew that the Courant was fundamentally tilted to the right, but using partisan rhetoric such as the "death tax" rather than the proper term-- "estate tax"-- is just plain wrong. I cringed when their 2004 endorsement of George Bush cited him as "stimulating the economy".

If these big businesses can't contribute just a little percentage more capital than those in poverty, than it is they who are unamerican and unpatriotic, interested only in improving their prosperity and not that of the country they are privileged to live in....

Anyway, aren't CT governors allowed 3 full terms? And does her serving the remainder of Rowland's third term count as one of them?

by: William H. Jacques @ Wed May 03, 2006 at 13:03:36 PM UTC

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Death tax (0.00 / 0)

So your saying that I should have to pay a death tax so my kids are not intitled to want I earn tax free? The tax should be eliminated the only peple who benefit from it are the politicans, they don't use that money to help my family when I am dead. Why is it that everybody complains that they don't make enough money, and the only way to fix anything is to raise taxes? I am tired of paying taxes on my car and everything else i own I work for a living get rid of the car tax. It isn't fair anyway. They tax everything and complain about money shortages. Don't we all deserve a brake once in a while?

by: home of the brave @ Thu May 04, 2006 at 11:55:22 AM UTC

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Do you have assests exceeding $5 million? (0.00 / 0)

The estate tax is not assessed on everyone. Just on the very wealthy. The purpose of the estate tax was to prevent an aristocracy for dominating this nation.

by: Larkspur @ Thu May 04, 2006 at 12:32:41 PM UTC

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And a dominant aristocracy (0.00 / 0)

is exactly what the Founding Fathers didn't want to happen. Just call us strict contructionists.

by: BranfordBoy @ Thu May 04, 2006 at 15:13:04 PM UTC

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Waaaaaah! (0.00 / 0)

Aren't you on the wrong blog?

Have you visited CT Conservate? You'll find a bunch of fellow whiners there.

by: TrueBlueCT @ Thu May 04, 2006 at 14:41:43 PM UTC

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True Blue CT , Your response is very well articulated and thought provoking. It is concise and well thought out. You are obliviously a superior intellect, educated at one of the finer institutions of the country.

You actually get up to a $2 million dollar exemption. And no I don't have $5 million yet, I am working on it though. I hope to have close to at least $2 million by the time I retire, with my investments and pension. I would have more if they gave me control of my social security money. But that is unreliable these days, so I do not factor it in.

by: home of the brave @ Fri May 05, 2006 at 11:17:40 AM UTC

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