Governor Malloy talks endlessly about how the pain from his budget is going to be shared equally, however, he proposes creating a new "earned income credit" where he plans to use the tax department as a form of welfare agency to send out $1,700 checks disguised as tax refunds to hundreds of thousands of people--most of whom don't even pay taxes in the first place.
There is nothing new about this idea, except what Democrats are calling it these days. Democrats have found a way to disguise redistribution of wealth as a "tax credit" and to cleverly hide their welfare agenda through the tax department. After-all, since the tax department exists to collect taxes, who would expect them to be utilized for distributing handouts?
As I said, there is nothing new about any of this as the idea behind redistribution of wealth can be traced all the way back to Karl Marx and the 18th century. What Governor Malloy doesn't like to talk about, is that before the state can send these "free" $1,700.00 checks to people he believes deserve your money more than you do, he must first seize that money through taxation from people who worked hard to earn it in the first place.
Govenror Malloy defends his plan by saying that after he forcibly takes your money and gives it to these people he believes are more deserving of your hard earned dollars, they will spend that money and that will drive our economy. I guess you could call this plan Stimulus 4, and you could also expect it to be as big a failure as all of Obama's stimulus plans combined.
More Smoke & Mirrors:
The governor also talks endlessly about how he is going to save so much money by downsizing the state from about 80 agencies (the state is so out of control that nobody seems to know for sure just how many we really have) to only about 50 agencies, but this too is little more than a ruse. The Governor must have attended one of those inferior public schools because he clearly doesn't understand basic math. Let me spell it out for you Governor: you take 50,000 employees, change what boss they report to or what name you call them, you still have the same 50,000 employees making the same salary and benefits. Where's the savings?
One thing is for certain. When we have an elected official paying someone $94,000 a year plus benefits to drive her around the state to attend political functions at nighttime, there is still much cutting that needs to be done.
6 comments:
Danno can spread some of his pain by sending me a $1,700 check every year.
I won't mind.
can I get 2?
The real problem is not the number of retirees or the average pension employees receive but the fact that elected officials failed to set aside the funds necessary to pay state pensions and now the bill is coming due.
The Average Yearly Connecticut State Pensions by Department or Agency is listed below:
State Police $48,500
DOC – Central Office $39,732
Environmental Protection $38,700
Transportation $38,300
Criminal Justice $38,000
Corrections $36,400
Labor Department $36,300
Mental Health $35,700
Revenue Services $32,100
Social Services $30,500
Judicial $29,700
Vo-Tech High Schools $29,200
Mental Retardation $27,600
Motor Vehicle $25,400
Public Safety – Civilian $25,200
The real problem is the pension $$$$$$$$$$
If the state employee’s take a wage freeze for the next two years. Will the retiree’s continue to get there cost of liviing increase 3.25% a year.
Shared the pain the answer should be NO.
How about since the legislature is supposed to be a part time job, eliminating free health care for life and pensions for legislators?
Let them get those perks from their full-time jobs!
Malloy should be following the examples being set in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Ohio where those governors are doing the right thing by taking on unions to tackle the real cause of our problems.
He bloviates endlessly about how he is reducing the size of the state by merging several agencies, but if you have the same number of people on the payroll, you have the same costs, no matter what you call the department they work for.
I believe this is just a shell game Malloy is using to give the impression he is downsizing the state without laying off even one state employee.
In my opinion, Malloy is simply a puppet for the same unions who elected him.
Dance Danno Dance "
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