A sampling of comments to HartfordBusiness.com
RE: Rell letting budget plan through unsigned
When are our solitaire-playing, baseball-game-watching legislature going to wake up and realize that the state does not need more borrowing and more spending? The size of state government is huge and needs to be cut back. In the private sector, costs have to be scaled back whenever revenues are reduced in order to survive. The taxpayers are getting fed up with ever-increasing spending with no thought given to scaling back. Any legislature who voted for this budget should be turned out of office. However, as long as Democrats have the backing of the unions, nothing meaningful will be done to cut down the size of state government.
Adrian L Bludeau
Adrian L Bludeau CPA, P.C.
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RE: CT Senate gives final approval to $37.6B budget
I am barely surviving and all these folks at the House and Senate can do is raised taxes. I wonder where they are hiding their heads. The economic climate is tougher than most legislator think it is. Borrowing and tax increases is not the answer. There is no doubt that cutting expenditures will hurt, but in the long run it will be the best medicine to get us out of this economic mess.
Tony Rodriguez
Daniel Penn Associates
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Please continue to act as the voice of business. Someone has to act as the voice of business and reason. I feel that it is impossible to get through to the legislators that we will not tolerate more taxes. The cigarette tax will bring in less money and more people will go to South Carolina and buy the cigaretts and sell them on the black market.
Robert Fishman
Fishman Group
