On December 21, 2020 Gov. Ned Lamont signed onto a regional cap and invest program called the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) that will raise the price of gasoline by upwards of 17 cents per…
Taxes
by Fergus Cullen This article originally ran in the Waterbury Republican-American on Sunday, July 5, 2009. Will Rogers might have said, “Half of all money spent by government is wasted. The government just needs to…
by Fergus Cullen This article ran in the Waterbury Republican-American on May 31, 2009 As Gov. M. Jodi Rell and state legislators struggle to close the state budget deficit and balance the next one, a…
Published on June 24, 2009 by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy This manual is designed to help local politicians, taxpayer activists, and concerned citizens to lower onerous property taxes by organizing to reduce local…
by Fergus Cullen, MPA, Executive Director of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy Published on May 20, 2009 by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: As Governor M. Jodi Rell and the General…
You're sensitive to the environment. You reduce, reuse, and recycle. But to a group of radical environmentalists and state legislators, you are an ecological sinner if you carry your groceries home in a plastic bag.…
HARTFORD – With the poor economy continuing to be a burden on Connecticut’s citizens, the Yankee Institute’s Policy Director, Heath W. Fahle, called the budget proposal announced this morning by Democratic legislators a “death sentence”…
December 2005 With the highest local-state-federal tax burden and one of the most ravenous spending habits in the nation, fiscal policy in Connecticut is disturbingly irresponsible -- particularly given the state’s fragile economic health. Unfortunately,…