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Democratic Debate Cocktails #AprilFools 2020

Enjoy the #AprilFools silliness as we deal with the presidential craziness this year..

Just this funny reminder of what 2016 was like…

Hey Pass me a cocktail there’s another speech going on

LOL Have a Happy #AprilFools Day

Let us know what pranks you fell for or that you pulled this year in the comments below (0;}

 

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A #SaturdaySilly as well as a set of #AprilsFoolDay celebration cocktails

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#TBT 2016 repost – Theft In Hartford City Hall!

This is an item from 2016 which I’m reposting now as a #TBT item for the Hartford City Hall under #BrokeBronin

With so many of my friends & family living in Hartford, I think a reminder about just how bad things have been going on is in order…

This is the election year which you will be deciding upon who will lead in Hartford’s city hall for the next 4 years…

The post below was posted back in December of 2016, now it’s more than 2 years later, have you forgotten what #BrokeBronin did back then?

#ElectionsHaveConsequences

It was so upsetting to me back in 2016 I posted about it twice!

Maybe it’s time for new fresh ideas and methods to be considered… what are your thoughts?

Cross posted item from another Tillett4CT project

Why did I shout THEFT you might ask?

Well when you think of it as a standard Employer and Employee terms;

If an Employee were to go into the warehouse & take some of the inventory and sell it to a third party without the knowledge and approval of the Employer…

well both the Employee and very likely the Buyer of the Stolen Goods from the Warehouse would be going to jail for stealing the goods from the Employer…

Now the problem is that too many people do not look at our elected officials as exactly what they are Our Employees… we “hire” them when we elect them into office to be good stewards over our tax dollars and city assets… if you as a business owner would not allow for your employees to steal from the warehouse and sell to third parties without your permission why would you be ok with it just because the employee has the title of “mayor”?

You do realize that elected officials are our employees because we pay their salaries with our taxes? Would you keep an employee that keeps stealing from your business? So why would you rehire an elected official that is doing the same?

As the candidates start making the rounds ask them lots of questions, are they giving you real answers or are they unavailable

 

 

Cross posted item from another Tillett4CT project

Why is #LyingLuke as Mayor of Hartford Allowed to STEAL from the Hartford Taxpayers & from the rest of us in the surrounding suburban towns?

Why is #BrokeBronin pushing for “Regionalism” to pay for all of the corruption that has been going on in the city of Hartford for decades & generations?

On one hand he tells the people on the south end of Hartford that he will legally fight (read wasting taxpayer money here) to keep Hartford’s Sanctuary City Status while on the other hand his insistence that the city not have to go through Bankruptcy Proceedings to those of us in the suburbs…

TAX on back of bent over man

Why is he thinking that STEALING from the city & us taxpaying homeowners in the surrounding towns who he plans to stick with the bills for is ok to do?

Just like a cheating husband trying to hide assets prior to a divorce; #BrokeBronin was trying to get this back room deal done for $500.00 with his friend in NY. Yet #LyingLuke with his friends at the MDC are trying to force the suburban towns to pay for the water bill for Hartford; this while Jellison & crew gets outrageous salaries to steal from us homeowners in the surrounding towns??

The local Hartford online news site We The People Hartford  alerted the people of the theft which the major media news picked up. When things became more widely public & reported in the major news outlets in CT the attempted theft was temporarily halted…

Thank you to Kevin Brookman for being the under celebrated CT Citizen News Reporter – he breaks the news & then the major news media outlets report on what he’s exposed… if you have a news tip about things in Hartford make sure to give it to him to report upon

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#TBT – Turbo Tax: The Rap (Extended Version)

This #ThrowBackThursday is in the spirit of fun over the “necessary evil” of paying the federal income taxes.

Do you live in a high state income tax state or a no income tax state?

How long has your state had it’s income tax? Add your comments below so we can talk about taxes in our states.

I recall back in the 90’s when I was busy raising young children when Connecticut became an income tax state.

It was a very nasty election year with Lowell Weicker winning the race for governor simply because he LIED about being willing to veto or sign an income tax bill, he claimed he was against starting an income tax in CT.

Then once he was elected in to office he started with the push to start the income tax rather than getting the state spending at a level that matched or was less than the amount of taxes collected each year.

Do you do your own taxes or do you pay a tax preparer?

If you do your taxes yourself do you use one of the popular tax preparer computer programs such as TurboTax?

Which program do you prefer to use?

But remember #TaxationIsTheft in our current system

 

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With April 18th being the due date this year for our taxes quickly approaching… 
 
I thought I’d share this video from Remy about the craziness that we all feel about how the chore of doing the yearly taxes…
 
Do you do your own taxes or do you pay someone else to do them for you?

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Keynesian Theory in 5 min

The elected officials are unable to quit their spending addiction because they do not plan to have to pay for any of the debt that they are creating…

#TaxationIsTheft

Plain and simple they feel they are entitled to steal our families money to spend it any way that they feel that they want to. They are without concern about the pain that it creates to our families or the actual damage that it does to our state. 

 

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After watching this short video do you want to continue on the current path which we are on or do you want to start on a new path which cuts out the wasteful spending and starts us down a path of sanity so that children and grandchildren can have better lives?

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CT has a Balanced Budget Under Threat by Lame Duck

Connecticut’s the only state in the USA which is operating without a budget at this point…

With lots of hard work the Republican budget was finally presented, voted upon and PASSED!

This Balanced Budget is under threat by our Lame Duck Governor because it doesn’t Add Tolls and increase spending to his crony friends whose salaries are paid by the CT Taxpayers.

Even before the Balanced Budget was passed by the CT House Malloy was grumpily fussing that he was going to VETO the Republican Budget!

Why would he VETO a Balanced Budget that Saves the Taxpaying citizens of CT money??

The Only Answer is because Malloy does NOT CARE ABOUT CT Taxpayers!

#MalloysMess is growing bigger because he & his party #DemocratsHurtingFamilies are only interested in making themselves RICHER at our expense – Look at how much the democrats rant and rave about cuts to the C.E.P. which gives MILLIONS of Dollars to the candidates and the democrat machine so they do not have to meet the people in person to answer questions in an open debate. That’s just one example

 

Copied & Pasted Facebook Post Below Highlighting of items was done by me to point out items to pay attention to

9/16/17
5:05AM

WE DID IT!

Good Morning, Friends!

As many of you will soon wake up and read this, I am just getting home and finally into bed.

After nearly 9 months of researching, calculating, debating, and finally negotiating, the GOP budget prevailed and therefore has been officially adopted, in a bipartisan manner, by both the Connecticut HOUSE AND SENATE!

A very special thank you to those courageous Democrats who joined us tonight by passing a historic budget for the citizens of our beloved state. I am so grateful to everyone who sent texts, made calls, and created social media posts in order to spread the word over these past two very intense days. This has undoubtedly been an experience that I will never forget. The fight isn’t over, however, but please know what an immense honor it is to be fighting for you and your family.

Now, let’s get our Governor to sign this budget before October 1st.

Please call & tell him to SIGN it!

Phone (860) 566-4840 
Toll-Free: (800) 406-1527
TDD: (860) 524-7397

FY 2018/2019 Budget Summary

No New Taxes & Reduces Taxes 

No increase of the sales tax

No secondary home tax

No cell phone tax

No increase to the cigarette tax

No new tax on nonprescription drugs

No new restaurant sales tax

No increase to the pistol permit fee

No increase to the hotel tax

No new fantasy sports tax

No income tax increase

Restores funding for the state’s property tax credit in its entirety to all families and individuals

Eliminates Social Security income tax and phases out tax on pension income for middle class families

Increases Education Funding

Increases education funding and includes a new ECS formula to fairly distribute aid as well as a council to analyze and make any necessary changes to the new formula within the next year.

Municipal Support and Mandate Relief

Flat funds or increases funding for all municipalities over the biennium.

Stabilizes municipal aid and does not ask towns and cities to pay for teacher retirement costs. Also includes significant municipal mandate relief.

Funds Core Social Services

Restores funding for core social services and programs that benefit people most in need.

Fully funds day and employment services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, reopens Care4Kids, etc.

Prioritizes Transportation

Prioritizes the state’s transportation needs and stabilizes funding without tolls or new taxes.

Implements the Republican Prioritize Progress transportation funding plan and stabilizes the state’s Special Transportation Plan.

Supports Seniors

Lowers taxes for retirees by eliminating tax on social security for middle class families and phases out pension income tax for those with incomes below a specified threshold.

Helps seniors age in place by restoring and increasing funding for core programs and supports such as Meals on Wheels, the personal needs allowance, non ADA dial a ride, and the CT Home Care Program.

Funds State Parks & Tourism

Enhances funding for state parks/tourism without raising taxes by implementing a new Passport to Parks program and dedicating a portion of the current hotel occupancy tax to a new Marketing, Culture & Tourism account.

Reduces Size of Government

Implements 10% reductions to certain agency accounts, overtime savings of 10%, a hiring freeze on non-24-hour non-union positions, and makes cuts to the legislature such as reducing the number of legislative committees.

Includes Structural Changes

Changes include a spending cap, bonding cap, municipal mandate relief, and other long term savings. Implements pension reform beginning in 2027 after the recently approved SEBAC contract ends.

Recommends rolling forward the FY 2017 holdbacks except for core services that this budget seeks to protect such as grants for mental health and substance abuse, early childhood programs for low income citizens, and youth service bureau funding. Implements 10% reductions to certain agency accounts.

Education

This budget includes a fully revised Education Cost Sharing Formula that takes into account factors regarding CCJEF and Meskill court decisions, enrollment, poverty and wealth. This budget dedicates $33.6 million more to education in FY 2018 and $136.6 million more in FY 2019.

Once fully implemented, the state will be spending $678.7 million more on education funding under this proposal, which also allows for a committee to study and revise the new formula if deemed necessary within the next year. In 2018 all towns and cities will either be held harmless or gain more ECS funding.

Municipal Aid

Flat funds or increases funding for all municipalities over the biennium • Does not require municipalities to assume any costs associated with teachers’ retirement. • Recommends mandate relief to help towns manage their budgets and identify savings for local taxpayers. • Preserves or increases Education Cost Sharing base grants to municipalities (detailed below) • Recommends eliminating the general revenue sharing and car tax portions of the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account (0.5% of the sales tax going to municipalities).

Transportation

• Implements “Prioritize Progress” to provide $62 billion to transportation over 30 years without new taxes or tolls.

• Does not sweep any funding from the Special Transportation Fund.

• Contains multiple policy changes to make the Special Transportation Fund solvent and prevent it from entering deficiency. Will move transportation related revenue into the STF to make solvent through 2022 and beyond.

Tax Reductions

• Exempts all Social Security as of January 1, 2017 for single income tax filers with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) below $75,000 and for joint filers with an AGI below $100,000.
• Phases out the tax on pension income for tax filers with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) below $75,000 and for joint filers with an AGI below $100,000 beginning in 2019.
• Phases in federal exemption of estate tax as governor does
• Lowers lifetime cap on gift and estate tax beginning in 2020 as governor does

Changes to Other Tax Proposals

• Does not raise or expand the sales tax

• Does not have a restaurant tax

• Does not increase cigarette tax, hotel tax or tax on digital downloads

• Does not tax nonprescription drugs

• Rejects proposed pistol permit fee increase

• Restores the $200 property tax credit for ALL qualifying families and individuals. (approximately 874,000 middle class and working poor families).

Social Services

• Provides required funding to reopen programs under Care4Kids

• Fully funds day and employment services for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

• Restores funding for core social services, including but not limited to:

Meals on Wheels (increases funding)

* mental health and substance abuse treatment

* SAGA, a lifeline for many of CT’s residents who are disabled and unable to work

* School based health clinics, rape crisis, community health services, family resource centers

* Does not annualize holdbacks for domestic violence shelters and services for those with disabilities, employment opportunities for blind and deaf

* Restores funding for regional mental health boards and restores mental health services

* Does not reduce burial benefits for the indigent

Seniors

• Rejects cuts to the CT Home Care Program
• Restores the personal needs allowance
• Social Security income tax exemption and phases in pension income tax exemption
• Restores full Meals on Wheels funding
• Restores funding for non ADA dial a ride and adds more funding
• Phases in Social Security income tax exemption for middle income households

Veterans

Restores funding for veterans’ headstones and burial expenses

Hospitals

• Does not allow municipalities to tax local hospitals and preserves the small hospital pool.
• Accept the hospital settlement agreed to by the Connecticut Hospital Association
• Phases out the hospital tax over time beginning in FY 2020.
• Increase Medicaid rates which protects hospitals from changes on the federal level

Parks

In an effort to stabilize the state’s protection and administration of our natural resources, this budget recommends the establishment of a new Environmental Conservation Account funded with a $5 annual State Parks Pass. This fee will be assessed on motor vehicle registrations. In return, all cars with a Connecticut license plate will be allowed access to state parks and forests without a parking fee. This will allow DEEP to operate in a more business-like fashion.

Tourism

Acknowledging the multiplier effect that tourism has on our economy, the budget proposes to transfer 1.5% of the current hotel occupancy tax to a new Marketing, Culture and Tourism account. This is not a new tax as Democrats have proposed. All current tourism appropriations made from the General Fund are eliminated and all future funding will be made from the new account on a competitive basis. This results in a tourism funding increase and more stability.
Funding is also provided to maintain Connecticut’s rest stops making our state more attractive to visitors.

Reduces Size of Government

• Requires that state agencies shall have no more than one deputy commissioner and have no more than one executive secretary.
• Implements overtime savings of 10%
• Hiring freeze on non-24-hour non-union positions
• Legislatives savings: cuts legislative franking, reduces legislative committees, and reduces sessional staff.
• Implements 10% reductions to certain agency accounts.

Public Safety

• Increases funding for Fire Training Schools
• Provides funding for resident troopers at 85% where the governor eliminates funding
• Preserves funding for Cold Case and Shooting Taskforce
• Provides additional funds to the Chief Medical Examiner beyond the governor’s proposal
Labor This budget proposal includes the savings from the SEBAC deal since it has already been passed by the legislature. Republicans originally proposed an alternative path to labor savings that would have achieved greater savings and allowed us to restore more funding to key programs. But since Democrats approved the labor deal our hands are now tied and the state is locked in to the SEBAC deal. Since the SEBAC deal was approved, our budget was also modified to remove the savings that could no longer be achieved such as savings associated with moving services to nonprofit providers.

The budget also implements pension reform beginning after the SEBAC deal ends in 2027 to achieve $270 million in savings over the biennium from the following changes to state employee benefits: requiring workers to pay the national average towards their retirement benefit, eliminating COLAs until the fund balance of the state employee retirement system is deemed healthy by national standards, eliminating overtime from calculation of final average salary, ceasing the current practice which allows higher paid employees to receive a larger portion of their final average salary as lower pain employees, commonly referred to as a break point.

New Education Cost Sharing Formula:

• Creates council to analyze education funding to make recommendations for the General Assembly to enact changes to the funding formula presented below if they so choose. Increased funding to towns as outlined below will be effective immediately upon passage. If another formula is not developed by the council within a year the following new formula will go into effect for future years.
o Fully functioning formula that factors in current enrollment
o Contains foundation grant of $9,638 based on academic research on the cost of educating a child in CT
o Provides a weight of 30% for students that receive free and reduced priced lunch. Contains an additional weight of 5% for those communities that have more than 75% of its population eligible for free and reduced priced lunch
o Provides a weight of 15% for English language learners
o Provides an additional 3%-6% for communities that have a Public Investment Community Index (PIC) over 300 which costs $9.4 million (For the top 5 towns, we provide an additional 6%, for the next 5 towns, we provide an additional 5%, for the following 5 towns, we provide an additional 4%, and for the last 4, we provide an additional 3% ).The PIC index measures the relative wealth and need of Connecticut town’s by ranking them in descending order by their cumulative point allocations for (a) per capita income, (b) adjusted equalized net grand list per capita, (c) equalized mill rate, (d) per capita aid to children receiving Temporary Family Assistance benefits, (e) unemployment rate
o The proposal weights net equalized grand list at 70% and median household income at 30%
o When the proposed ECS formula is fully implemented, the state will be spending $678.7 million more on ECS
o This proposal recommends flat funding municipalities that would have received a reduction in ECS funding as a result of the formula (primary driver, enrollment declines) in FY 2018. It then would phase in reductions to municipalities over a 10 year period beginning in FY 2019.
o For a municipality that is due to receive an increase due to the formula, this proposal recommends phasing in the increase over a 10 year period beginning in FY 2018 with towns seeing 5% of their new full funding under the formula in FY 2018 and 15% of their full funding in FY 2019. Thereafter towns would receive 10% increases annually until 2028 at which point they would be fully funded under the new formula.
o The budget provides an increase of funding of $33.6 million in FY 2018 and $136.6 million in FY 2019

Special Education

• Similar to the Governor, this proposal seeks to transfer the portion of the ECS grant that is attributed to special education (approximately 22%) and combines the $447 million with the current excess cost account and an additional $10 million creating a combined pool of $597.6 million
• The distribution of these funds will range from 2.5% to 52% and will be distributed based on the equalized net grand list of municipalities similar to the Governor
• Unlike excess cost, the distribution of these monies will be based on previous years’ expenditures rather than a town waiting until the expenditure of a child hits 4.5 times of their per pupil

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Welcome President Trump Rally in CT 5-17-17

There is a Welcome to CT President Trump Rally scheduled for early

Wednesday morning come starting at 7:30 am,

May 20th, 2017!

It’s supposed to be a beautiful day full of sunshine so if you are in the area grab your lawn chairs and your picnic blankets and your favorite Trump Supporting shirt or sign.

We’ll Welcome President Trump as he heads over to the Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremonies bright and early. Let’s celebrate our First Amendment rights to Freely Assemble and Speak.

Coffee and donuts will be available from 7:30 until 9

The speakers at McKinley park will begin at 10am

Grab your children and your younger relatives from college classes, everyone can either go in late, taking an Educational Day Off from school.

It’s #MAGA time (0;} If you’re in CT, NY head on over or in lower Mass carpool down and enjoy a day of celebration in McKinley Park, New London CT next to the Coast Guard Academy.

 

Come out to Welcome President Trump to CT & celebrate Free Speech

Be certain to Share on Social

 

Welcome Trump Rally 5-17-17

Be certain to share on social with all your friends and family!

#MAGA

#nq

Coalition Building – Can we work together?

Can the Right and the Left build bridges and coalitions to be able to make the state and maybe the country a better place?

Can we find common ground to start from to solve some of the problems we face?

Map of CT Divided into 5 Congressional Districts

Map of CT Divided into 5 Congressional Districts

 

Can Conservatives, Republicans, Unaffiliated, Independents, Democrats & Liberals find the common ground & work together to solve the many problems in our state and country is a question that I’ve been mulling around since last week when 2 democrats showed up at a conservative meeting in late Feb that was accidently posted publicly comparing it to the town hall meetings where the “Indivisible” group members were in a “Lovefest” with the democrats vs the Bullying that was done at the republican town hall meetings….

I have friends and family that are democrats as well as republican, libertarian and unaffiliated like most of us do and when it’s a one on one discussion even if we do not agree 100% on the issues we can talk civilly and agree to disagree on some items all of the people I know agree that the destruction of property that is being shown is just plain wrong.

One thing that I have noticed is that my right leaning friends know more about many of the issues but my left leaning ones do not. In fact it seems that my left leaning friends are surprised to hear about some of the issues because they’ve not been told about the items which are the problems because the media many times do not cover an issue in full or at all…

Many times the issues that the right side groups have are not spoken about in the media or if they are the media has such a warped coverage that it’s more “propaganda” than actual news coverage…

While the leaders of the right have no real outreach into the public their message and information is not getting out to the public but the leaders of these left-wing groups have the megaphones of the liberal left-wing media newspapers, television news and radio.

One question is why is only the left-wing given the ear of the public that the right just does not have? Where can people go to get educated on both sides of the issues?

How can people work together when the proper information is not put in front of them so that Informed Decisions can be made by the public? When people have both sides of an issue we can talk about what the problems are and how we can solve the problems.

What are your thoughts about what can be done to correct this problem? Leave your thoughts below in the comments.

Other important questions you should ask yourself is “Who Benefits from an Misinformed or Under-Informed Public?” and “Why are the media going along with this?”.