JOIN THE FEDERATION ON MARCH 23,
2013 AND/OR APRIL 13, 2013
FOR AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION ON HOW THE STATE’S BUDGET AND MANDATES
IMPACT YOUR LOCAL PROPERTY TAXES!
Also Learn How You Can Get Greater Transparency in Your Town of How
Your Taxpayer Dollars are Spent
The
Clinton Taxpayers Group Will Be Joining Us on March 23, to Discuss Issues in
Their Town. What are your issues? Join us! Let’s Talk and Work to Reduce the
Tax Burden in Connecticut,
the Third Highest Property Taxed State in the Nation!
Dates: Saturday, March 23,
2013 and April 13, 2013
Time: 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Wethersfield Library, 515 Silas Deane Highway, Wethersfield, CT
RSVP/Questions: Susan Kniep 860-841-8032, email:
fctopresident@aol.com
Directions: http://wethersfieldlibrary.org/contact/directions.html
If you wish a representative of the Federation to Speak at a Meeting in
your Town or on a Cable Program contact fctopresident@aol.com.
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The State
of our State is Not so Stately
From the Federation: The 169
towns throughout Connecticut will be forced to dramatically increase property
taxes if Governor Malloy shifts state aid away from municipal budgets while
concurrently ending such programs as Pilot funding and prohibiting the
collection of automobile taxes while providing no alternative resource. His budget will push homeowners and businesses
off the State’s own Fiscal Cliff and
into a cesspool of growing debt, deficits, and unsustainable public sector
union contracts while he continues to march to the beat of the public sector
unions as the self-proclaimed Son of Organized Labor. Missing from the equation of the Governor’s
budget, which has yet to be addressed by legislators, the news media, or
municipal officials, is a frank and honest discussion of State mandates such as
Binding Arbitration, Collective Bargaining and Prevailing Wage Laws. Collectively these mandates are the primary
drivers of state and local property taxes, 85% of which pay for the personnel
related costs of Town and Board of Education employees.
The Governor, in his last state budget, not only imposed the
largest tax increase in State history of $1.5 billion, but also locked
taxpayers into a 9% wage increase for State employees. He also laid the golden goose of job security
at their feet while Connecticut
taxpayers continue to be thrust onto the unemployment line and homeowners lose
their homes to Tax Lien Sales.
As the Governor proposes ending the collection of automobile taxes,
he should immediately call for ending or reforming Collective Bargaining Laws
and give the management of our towns and cities to those whom we elect to
office. Instead those management rights
have been steadily chiseled away by arbiters in support of public sector unions
as their wages, pensions and healthcare benefits have become unsustainable. The State of our State must now be addressed
in an effort to keep businesses from fleeing Connecticut and homeowners from losing their
homes to property taxes they cannot afford to pay.
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To Learn More Visit …..
Pensions - Connecticut Transparency Website
Employee Compensation - Connecticut Transparency ...
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Also From the Yankee Institute
525 $100k Pensions in 2012
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State Government Has Grown Too Large – Check it out at ……
Senator McKinney’s Budget Presentation in Stratford [PDF]
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