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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

DON PESCI: Is Malloy serious? - The Middletown Press (middletownpress.com)

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Anonymous said...: SYSTEMIC CHANGES- Why New Britain needs Mayor Tim Stewart to be reelected for another term - Systemic Changes of Gov. -elect Malloy Raising Taxes again?

Facing a state budget gap of nearly 20 percent between planned expenditures and likely revenue, Connecticut state government needs “systemic” changes, Gov.-elect Dan Malloy told a business group breakfast in Hartford this week. What does that mean?

Does it mean the sort of “systemic” change Connecticut got when the state income tax was enacted in 1991 - higher taxes and bigger government serving only to diminish Connecticut’s quality of life?

But there are many opportunities for another sort of “systemic” change -- changes to increase the value obtained by the public from state government.

First on that sort of agenda for “systemic” change would be to identify what are so smugly called the “fixed costs” of government and to unfix them, to put them under ordinary public administration.

Collective bargaining for public employees, binding arbitration of public employee union contracts, public employee pensions, “prevailing wage” requirements for government construction projects -- all these state laws and others actually prohibit controlling the run-away wrecked train of state budget.; December 22, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Anonymous said...: Malloy clearly has no intention of cutting spending because that would alienate his beloved unions, so the only thing left is to raise taxes on the rest of us to fund the lavish agreements of the unions.; December 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: HARTFORD 12/22/10 — Gov.-elect Dan Malloy nominated state Sen. Donald J. DeFronzo of New Britain as commissioner of the Department of Administrative Services and said he will play a key role in reshaping state government. Malloy described DeFronzo as a no-nonsense, nose-to-the-grindstone kind of guy. He said DeFronzo will help reshape and streamlining state government, including possibly reorganizing state agencies.; December 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM

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