Steve NoxonPresident and CEO of CBIA Chris DiPentima offers his thoughts and insights on the state’s plan to use part the $2.8 billion relief payment from the Federal government to cover the state’s budget deficit instead of using it as it is intended to be used.
Connecticut State Representative Tony D’Amelio, who represents Waterbury and Middlebury in the 71st General Assembly District gives his thoughts on a bill being debated in Hartford that would allow restaurants and caterers to keep 1% of the 7.35% tax that is collected on meals. He also discusses a few other pieces of legislation that are working their way through the halls of the Capitol building.
Hot Air weekend editor Jazz Shaw and I talk about a few of his columns, including New York State’s plan to dramatically increase taxes on the wealthy and what the impact will be and the pending report to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee from the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UFOs). We also discussed Jazz’s participation in The Big Phone Home and the effort to insure that the report is made public.
Connecticut is constantly referred to as the richest state in the country, and many state politicians repeatedly use that to justify more taxes and more spending. But we are on track to quickly lose that status. What happens then?
Read more about this from Marc Fitch of the Yankee Institute here.
Marc Fitch, investigative journalist for the Yankee Institute, joins me again to discuss the TCI proposal that was recently passed out of the Environment Committee and the potential impact on gas prices in Connecticut. We also talk about how the state is still paying for former Gov. Dan Malloy’s First Five folly.