Tag: Budget/Economy/Taxes

Wonder Where the Money Went? $4.5 Billion in Corporate Subsidies

Subsidy Tracker Data Now Searchable Within More Than 10,000 Localities Subsidy Tracker, the nation’s only public and free database of economic development incentive awards, today introduced a new feature that allows the user to display summary data for more than…

Spending Cuts and Trickle Down (On) – DO NOT WORK

Austerity is the wrong medicine for Connecticut –July 02. 2017 — Op-Ed– By: Bilal Dabir Sekou —   More than nine years after the start of the 2007-09 Great Recession, the U.S. economy is not working for most Americans. The recovery…

Austerity is NOT the Answer to CT’s Budget Crisis

No Revenue + Program Cuts for CT Budget Will Make You Cry – Here’s Why: People will die – Cuts to social service programs and medical services mean health care will be harder to get for: A. People with disabilities,…

Budget Cuts Kill Summer Jobs for Youth

Dozens Of East Haven Youth Lose Jobs Due To State Budget Woes The program was scheduled to begin in early July. Statewide more than 5,000 youths are put to work through the program. By Brian McCready (Patch National Staff) –…

Base Budget on FACTS not myths.

Connecticut’s millionaire migration myth  Ellen Shemitz and Derek Thomas–Connecticut Voices for Children — in CT Mirror Viewpoints As the legislature toils to come to consensus on this year’s budget, we urge them to make decisions grounded in facts, research, and…

Invest — Don’t Cut Taxes – Says Nobel Prize Winner

Nobel Laureate Urges Caution On Tax Cutting In Connecticut By HARRIET JONES • WNPR Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller says Connecticut shouldn’t be cutting taxes in order to keep corporations in the state. Shiller, who is a professor of economics at…

I Was Arrested — Demanding a Moral State Budget

Legislators Obligated To Pass A Moral Budget House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, speaks to the House on the final day of session June 7. No budget was reached before adjournment.(Jessica Hill / AP) KENT J. SILADI — In the…

Fair Share Taxation — What A Concept

OPINION | MOHAMAD ALI AND ALAN CLAYTON-MATTHEWS — Boston Globe Millionaire tax will put Massachusetts back on track SCOTT EISEN/GETTY IMAGES    —   Worn at a Tax Day protest in April in Cambridge. WE ALL WANT a future for…