Wall Street Journal: A Connecticut Tax Story – A rate increase yielded less revenue than the state paid in subsidies
Yankee Institute research cited by the WSJ editorial board
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Yankee Institute Policy Director Scott Shepard on Tolls
What we’ve got is a toll bill that we’ve been promised is going to do various things but it goes through no matter what. Yankee Institute Policy Director Scott Shepard
Yankee Institute President Carol Platt Liebau Interviewed At Toll Hearing
Even by Northeastern standards we pay extraordinarily high public salaries and public benefits. That’s something that needs to be examined. Yankee Institute President Carol Platt Liebau NOTE: Yankee Institute DOES NOT support raising the gasoline tax, we were pointing out that collecting toll revenue is prohibitively expensive and inefficient.
Agreed, State Employees Are Not The Problem
The recent op-ed in the Courant is correct on one count: state employees are not the problem. If not state employees, then who is to blame for the seemingly perpetual state budget deficit? The problem is politicians who, and this won’t surprise anyone, made promises they couldn’t keep.