Tag Archives: State Sen. Martin Looney

Don’t turn state pension money into a political slush fund

By CHRIS POWELL Despite some recent improvement, Connecticut’s state employee and teacher pension accounts are still underfunded by billions of dollars. Yet Governor Lamont wants to start using them as political slush funds. Connecticut Democrats divert more public money to patronage Yale has become too big for its property tax break Awful Trump is rightContinue reading “Don’t turn state pension money into a political slush fund”

To end car tax, spend less; and UConn abides thuggery

By Chris Powell Many state legislators claim to be perplexed by the challenge of eliminating municipal property taxes on cars, which produce about a billion dollars per year for municipal governments. If property taxes on cars were eliminated, how would the money be replaced? One advocate of eliminating car taxes, state Senate President Pro TemContinue reading “To end car tax, spend less; and UConn abides thuggery”