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Issue Position: Fiscal Discipline

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Entitlements and the Safety Net Taxes Government Budget and Spending

The state of Connecticut has a spending problem. We have a bloated bureaucracy and our spending is inefficient and wasteful. It is no secret that our state employee benefits and pension systems need to be reformed. The approach the current administration is taking to solving that problem is by increasing taxes. In the last budget, new payroll taxes have been imposed, sales taxes on essential items have been increased and now tolls are being proposed. Instead of cutting wasteful spending our state administration is doubling down. We have to stop and reverse this policy blunder. Our state income tax was started in 1991 as a small temporary tax. A new state payroll tax has been instituted in 2020 as a small one-off tax -- we have seen this play out. We have to fight to repeal this new payroll tax.


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