A CALL TO ACTION

Democrats have lived up to their pledge to tax the residents of Connecticut into submission.

Today we learned the House and Senate leaders in the Legislature will attempt to pass a budget that will increase personal income taxes 60 % while adding a 30 % surcharge on all businesses. As the largest tax increase proposed in state history, it is the biggest theft of personal property by a government since King George III.

Most of our neighbors won't believe it, but the Democrats have made irresponsibility into an art form. Democrats believe the way out of an $8 billion budget shortfall is to further punish those who pay all the taxes and create all the jobs.

Democrats don't nor will they offer any substantive cuts in spending, certainly none that addresses even a fraction of the deficit problem.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell is holding firm and called on the Democrats to pass a budget without tax increases and with broad and deep spending cuts which she and House and Senate Republicans have offered in various budget proposals.

"If the Democrats are intent upon passing such a tax increase, they owe it to the individuals and employers who will be paying those taxes to provide them with the details," Governor Rell said. "There is only a week to go - and still there is no information about who will pay these taxes, or how much they will be forced to pay. The Democrats should spell out their plan and hold a public hearing on it before bringing legislators back to the Capitol for a vote."

Amen - but it is unlikely Democrats would hold any public form prior to voting on the budget, maybe by Thursday. They will probably keep their proposal hidden from public view until they have to shot it and distribute it to the entire 151-House and 36-member Senate.

The increase in the personal income tax would run from 5% up to almost 8% on incomes of $500,000 or more. Small and large businesses, those which are still profitable, would be stung with another 30 cents on the dollar for every buck in the black.

And Democrats want to add more penalties on dying by lowering the threshold for taxation on an estate below the $2 million threshold.

Democrats continue to travel the state trying to rally support for their tax increases with rhetorical nonsense that is not fooling anyone, including their hometown crowds of union-loyalist and non-profit dependents.

A CALL TO ACTION
Now is the time to keep the phones humming? Now is the time to get on the radio and get on your local newspaper websites to register the Republican side of the story.

Connecticut must cut spending and shrink government.
Connecticut can have a budget without tax increases - pass Governor Rell's budget.
The Democratic budget will destroy jobs and bankrupt the Middle Class.
The Democratic budget puts the government first at the expense of taxpayers.
We now have history and the facts on our side. Now is the time to get your friends and neighbors engaged and not allow the Democrats to ruin our state.

Call, write, blog, Twitter - whatever it takes to take back Connecticut.

Sincerely,





Chris Healy
Chairman