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
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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.
A Presidential Tax Cut for Liberal Elite
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 ...
Raising Hale in CT
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 ...