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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 Bring Transparency to Your Local Government
March 21 2013
From: The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer
Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone: 860-841-8032
BREAKING: LIVE VERDICTS: Bell council members guilty of corruption
5 of 6 officials guilty in Bell,
Calif., corruption case
State Offered Development Deal To
Makers Of Gun Used In Newtown Massacre
Tax Burden Too High?
Concerned for Early Release Prison Program? Check out the following …..
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
Check
out below: The State of Our State of our State
is Not So Stately
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 following is a message
from JR Romano, mailto:infoCT@afphq.org,
State Director, Americans for Prosperity- Connecticut: Petition: I'm not a revenue
source! Can you join us this Friday, March 22, at the Statehouse at 9:30AM as we
release our “I’m Not a Revenue Source” petition! Had enough of the state government treating you as a revenue source – a
nameless, faceless, unending supply of funds?! We have your chance to let
them know. It’s our money – let’s tell them to stop overspending it!
Friday at 9:30AM in Hearing Room 2A of the Statehouse we will launch our “I’m
Not a Revenue Source” petition! Families and individuals in the state are
struggling and being forced to cut back, while the state government keeps
growing. Don’t miss your chance to let state officials know the time to
stop over-spending is now. I hope to see you Friday!
Senator Joe Markley and former Senator Len Suzio
will be holding a press conference at 11am this Friday, March 22, prior to a Judiciary
Committee hearing focused on shutting down the state's Early Release program. Early
Release has been responsible for letting out violent criminals and two murders
have been attributed to Early Release criminals. Press Conference is in
Room 2A and the Early Release hearing is at 11:30am in room 2B. Click here to read Len's early release
Op Ed. SUBJECT MATTER: Risk Reduction, Department of Corrections,
Racial Profiling and Miscellaneous *H.B. No. 6657 (RAISED) AN ACT CONCERNING
SENTENCING AND RISK REDUCTION CREDITS. - *S.B. No. 123 (COMM) AN ACT REPEALING
THE RISK REDUCTION CREDIT PROGRAM. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/TOB/S/2013SB-00123-R01-SB.htm Email: lensuzio@gmail.com
Phone: (203)-530-1544
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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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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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RealClearMarkets - Is the SEC Letting States Get Away With Fraud?
By Steven Malanga
March 20, 2013 In its complaint against Illinois last week, the
Securities and Exchange Commission offered about a dozen instances of how
officials ‘misled' or failed to properly ‘disclose' information to potential
investors about the worrying condition of the state's employee pension funds.
Some of these lapses, like failing to tell investors that the state's basic
plan to finance its pension system was inadequate in the first place, might strike
the average investor as serious omissions. The SEC's complaint three years ago
against New Jersey,
the first state ever charged with fraud by the market regulator, seemed even
more incriminating. There the SEC charged that officials committed a particularly
big whopper: failing to tell investors that the state had justified a big
benefits boost for workers in 2001 by valuing its pension funds as if it were
still 1999, before the technology stock meltdown knocked billions of dollars
off the pension system's assets. Continue reading at ….. http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/03/20/is_the_sec_letting_states_get_away_with_fraud_100210.html
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