Your
Tax Dollars at Work!!!!
For Them! Not You!
Check out State Employee Salaries and Pensions Below…..
With Appreciation to the
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October 28, 2013
From: The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer
Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone:
860-841-8032
Hartford Courant
reports…..
Kevin
Hunt: State Empties Enfield Woman's Bank Accounts (Avoid ...
That, And Penalties, With Tax Amnesty Program)
October 26, 2013|Kevin Hunt - The Bottom Line,
The Bottom Line
The only thing worse than taxes owed is taxes owed that you
can't afford to pay.
Gina Sullivan, who says her unemployed husband and two
teenage boys were living paycheck-to-paycheck this summer in Enfield, made only token payments on her back
taxes but not enough to satisfy the state.
Guess who won this tug-o'-taxes? The state, of course, with an emphatic
liquidation in mid-August of two family bank accounts. Continue at ….. http://articles.courant.com/2013-10-26/business/hc-bottom-line-tax-amnesty-20131026_1_tax-amnesty-program-bank-accounts-local-property-taxes
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CTmirror.org Reports…..
A roster
of $10,000 donors helps Malloy drive Democrats to 3-1 advantage
Democrats note that Tom Foley, the Republican nominee for
governor in 2010 who created an exploratory committee for governor in the last
month, already has a relationship with GOP national super PACS through an independent group he helped create last year,
Voters for Good Government. Continue
reading at ….
http://www.ctmirror.org/story/2013/10/27/roster-10000-donors-helps-malloy-drive-democrats-3-1-advantage
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Big Deal,
Small Deal, No Deal: Why Hopes Are Low at Start of Talks Over Next
Congressional Budget Cliff
By Alex Rogers @arogDC Oct. 28, 2013
Time
Government funding is set to run out again on Jan. 15, and
in seven weeks a bipartisan group in Congress has been told to present a new path forward. Their
first — and so far only — scheduled meeting is this Wednesday. The group
has no special legislative powers, little time to act, excludes key players and
will work from documents — the Senate and House budgets — that are in one
important way as partisan as Obamacare: neither bill
when passed in March attracted a single vote from a member of the minority
party.
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/28/big-deal-small-deal-no-deal-why-hopes-are-low-at-start-of-talks-over-next-congressional-budget-cliff/#ixzz2j18XaGAu
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Grand Jury Convened As Feds
Subpoena Hartford Records In Insurance Controversy
By JENNA CARLESSO, VANESSA DE LA TORRE And
EDMUND H. MAHONY, jcarlesso@courant.com The Hartford
Courant 4:20 p.m. EDT, October 25, 2013
HARTFORD — — Federal law enforcement officials have served
the city with a subpoena requesting documents about Hybrid Insurance Group, the
firm at the center of a controversy over unpaid insurance premiums, as details
surfaced that a grand jury has been convened to investigate the city's dealings
with Hybrid.
Among the recipients are the city's audit commission and
board of education, sources said Friday. Corporation Counsel Saundra Kee Borges said her office is cooperating with the U.S. attorney's
office. She declined to elaborate. The subpoena states that the city must
appear before the grand jury in U.S.
District Court in Hartford,
or provide records to the FBI. Continue reading at …. http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-hybrid-subpoena-1026-20131025,0,3960854.story
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Stephen D. Eide, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
“The current
system is unsustainable. The impact of rising pension costs has meant that San Jose can’t hire more
firefighters, police officers, librarians, gang intervention workers. These
out-of-control costs are why we can’t keep all of our libraries, community
centers and swimming pools open.” San Jose mayor Chuck Reed, 2010
“The pension
crisis is no longer around the corner. It has arrived at our schools.” Chicago
mayor Rahm Emanuel,
remarking on Chicago’s
decision to lay off 2,100 teachers and school support staff this past summer
“I talked to
social-services agencies or social workers who, when I started to talk about
pensions, would ask, ‘Why should I care about pensions?’ And I said, ‘Because
if you don’t, your whatever it is—homeless shelter, for example—is going to
lose thousands of dollars of funding.’ ” Rhode Island treasurer Gina Raimondo, 2012
Continue reading at ….. http://ctact.org/default.asp?callcontent=yes&filename=Unsustainable.htm&location=Unions&buttonname=Unions or
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_81.htm#.UmrIQPk3src
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At the web link Salaries and Benefits Paid to State Employees in Fiscal Year 2012 you can view State of Connecticut
Employees Earning from $220,000 to $2,831,925 in
Salary and Benefits During Fiscal Year 2012
You can also check the salaries and benefits paid to all
State Employees in Fiscal Years 2012, 2011, and 2010 at Employee Compensation which notes taxpayers paid 92,456 State Employees a Total of
$5,806,453,525 in Wages and Benefits in Fiscal Year 2012
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Connecticut Pays Pensions as High as $276,000!!!!
In Calendar Year, the State of Connecticut paid 44,216 Retirees pensions
totaling $1.4 BILLION!!! The following link illustrates those who
received from $50,000 to the highest pension at $276,364.
Click to View…… http://www.ctact.org\upload\home\StatePensionFinalFinal.xls
To learn more about State of CT Employee Pensions
click http://transparency.ct.gov/html/searchPensions.asp.
Malloy legislative appointees get big
pension boost
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Auditors cite 'excessive' spending at UConn Health Center
By Keith M. Phaneuf CTMirror.org
October 16, 2013
The
audit, which covered the 2010-11 and 2011-12 fiscal years, found the center
paid $73,000 in costs for one worker’s sabbatical leave. But while UHC bylaws
require those on sabbatical to return and work for at least one year, this
employee never came back.
The state auditors' office outlined a series of “excessive”
spending practices Wednesday at the UConn Health
Center involving
professional development, compensatory time, retirement benefits and
specialized legal fees topping $800 per hour.
Auditor John C. Geragosian also
cited the Farmington-based center — which hosts UConn’s
medical and dental schools and John
Dempsey Hospital
— with failing to document millions of dollars in purchases that might
have required competitive bidding.
Continue reading at ….. http://www.ctmirror.org/story/2013/10/16/auditors-cite-excessive-spending-uconn-health-center
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