The General Assembly for its part has shown concern for housing affordability by conducting public hearings and press conferences on issues like rent control and overriding local zoning. ![]() Little has been written about how much their plights will worsen under an income tax break that provides no relief and adds potentially crippling property tax hikes. Many of whom pay property taxes while trying to hold onto their home. Guess who pays very little income taxes? Senior citizens. Instead, the Governor has introduced a middle-class income tax reduction. After all, with billions in surpluses what better time to focus on positively impacting what is widely considered to be Connecticut’s most crippling and regressive tax. Surely Governor Lamont and Assembly leaders will focus on this issue and offset this potential property tax Armageddon. ![]() Because of Connecticut’s overreliance on property taxes these increases are all due to be absorbed in future mill rates. Most of us are so focused on how to absorb 40% increases in electric bills that we don’t even stop to think about the cost of electricity in our schools or town halls. The same inflationary increases that impact individual households also impact our municipalities - the cost of maintaining a governmental building, replacing a road sign, and filling potholes are all increasing. Homeowners in Connecticut are looking down the barrel of potentially the largest property tax increases in history. Just as Limbaugh’s views were expressed during a unique moment in time, understanding the stage in which today’s views are being expressed is vitally important. Thirteen years later, I pointed out to one of the top progressive leaders in the Connecticut General Assembly an issue that would ultimately hurt our property taxpayers, the reply I received was, “the worker’s compensation system is large enough to just absorb the cost.” ![]() ![]() Source: Joe DeLong, CCM, Hearst Media Op-Edīy Joe DeLong, Executive Director and CEO, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM)įollowing the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh proclaimed that the oil spill wasn’t a big deal because the ocean simply, “eats the oil.” Representation Matters Two-Day Training.He later said he regretted running the segment, but he continued to blast homophobic commentary. Early on, his show briefly had a segment called "AIDS Update" in which he mocked gay men who died of AIDS complications and blamed them for the disease. Man Donald Trump? What's going to happen there?'" As it happened, Buttigieg never appeared next to Trump, but now Trump is out of office and Buttigieg is a member of President Joe Biden's Cabinet.Īmong Limbaugh's many other anti-LGBTQ+ statements, he has asserted that when a gay man turns his back, "it's an invitation" said the movement for equality is succeeding only "by virtue of force" blamed marriage equality for incest said a photo of a distraught gay child was faked urged the Republican Party to denounce Caitlyn Jenner, a Republican herself, for being transgender and predicted that photos of Melania Trump nude and embracing another woman, which were leaked during the 2016 presidential campaign, would lead LGBTQ+ people to vote for her husband. Democratic leaders, he claimed, had to be "saying, 'OK, how's this going to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband onstage next to Mr.
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