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.
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.
by Dr. Lewis Andrews As the Bush tax cuts become a central issue of the midterm elections, more and more people are asking why President Obama, in refusing to extend them for “the rich,” has defined the upper income limit for middle class singles as $200,000 and for families as ...
HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute’s media project, Raising Hale, is our repository for investigative reports on Connecticut’s state government. The website, www.RaisingHale.com, features articles and videos that break news and address topics not covered elsewhere. Zachary Janowski is an investigative reporter for the Yankee Institute and is responsible for the ...
HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute announces the launch of Raising Hale, a new source of investigative reporting for Connecticut. The website, www.RaisingHale.com, will feature articles and videos that break news and address topics not covered elsewhere. Zachary Janowski is an investigative reporter for the Yankee Institute and is responsible for ...