By CHRIS POWELL According to state Sen. Jan Hochadel, D-Meriden, Connecticut shouldn’t be afraid of taxing the wealthy more. Hartford hints at best way to solve housing shortage More ‘public benefits’ bunk; and the big liability machine A big payday for child neglect? And not all cruelty is Trump’s In a newspaper essay last week Hochadel citedContinue reading “Don’t ask government employees if state should raise taxes”
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Don’t make businesses pay for the addiction of their employees
By Chris Powell Two Democratic state senators, Saud Anwar of South Windsor and Jan Hochadel of Meriden, plan to propose legislation making Connecticut businesses pay, through their workers’ compensation insurance, for remediating the drug addiction of their employees. The senators contend that much drug addiction is caused by overwork, abuse, and repetitive-stress injuries on theContinue reading “Don’t make businesses pay for the addiction of their employees”
Can state legislators resist clamor to bust ‘guardrails’?
By Chris Powell Last week’s projections of more than a billion dollars in unexpected state government tax revenue over the next two years have strengthened demands for more spending in the last days of the General Assembly’s current session. Legislators already had been grabbing furiously at the remnants of federal pandemic emergency aid, and theContinue reading “Can state legislators resist clamor to bust ‘guardrails’?”
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