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JOIN THE FEDERATION ON MARCH 23, 2013 AND/OR APRIL 13, 2013

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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Salaries and Benefits Paid to State Employees in Fiscal Year 2012

Here we offer a sampling.  The State’s Transparency Website Notes we Paid 5.8 Billion Dollars for 92,456 State Employees Earning what some might consider Excessive Salaries and Benefits 
The Federation of - CT Taxpayer Organizations - March 4, 2013

 

 

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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