Ritter said they want to use those tax increases to lower taxes for the low-income.
“At some point we ask the governor what works best for you in your mind if we’re going to do some progressive taxation and try and bring in revenue,” Ritter said.
Max Reiss, the governor’s spokesman, said “Governor Lamont has been clear for months: Connecticut doesn’t need more taxes, we need more taxpayers. We look forward to negotiating a budget, starting this week, that reflects the priorities of supporting our state’s most critical needs, maintaining fiscal responsibility, and addressing equity.”
Republicans who will not be part of the negotiations say there’s no need to raise taxes.
A bill to lend equality to sea and land in terms of local property tax breaks for farms is being hailed by seafood harvesters and producers while being balked at by some municipal officials.
The bill, passed unanimously last week by the state Senate, would add underwater shellfishing beds and certain waterfront shellfish shipping sites to the list of properties covered under the longstanding state statute known as Public Act 490. The statute allows farmland, forests, open spaces and maritime heritage land to be assessed based on what the property is used for rather than its fair market value, resulting in lower property taxes. It is a land preservation tool to allow owners to keep land that would otherwise be too expensive to hold on to.
The time is now to create the CT Office of Community Gun Violence Prevention
Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, organized a news conference in mid-April following the shooting death of a three-year old in Hartford. On Friday, she convened a joint informational committee hearing to hear about gun violence intervention and prevention.
On a recent Saturday in Hartford, 3-year-old Randell Jones was shot and killed while sitting in a car with his siblings. Later that afternoon, just a mile away, 16-year-old Ja’Mari Preston was shot dead. These are not isolated events. Over the 10-year period ending in 2017, more than 400 young people in Connecticut have been killed by guns. The crisis of gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color. One statistic screams out: young Black men in Connecticut are 39 times more likely than young white men to be slain with a gun.
Advocates for banning flavored tobacco products press on despite setback
Keith M. Phaneuf, ctmirror.org
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FILE- This Sept. 16, 2019 file photo shows flavored vaping solutions in a window display at a vape and smoke shop in New York.Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press
The battle to ban flavored e-cigarettes and other tobacco products hit a roadblock recently when the legislature’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee approved a measure that assumes no change in current law.
But advocates for a broad-based prohibition said Tuesday that the struggle is not over and remained hopeful that some restrictions could be enacted before the General Assembly adjourns its regular session on June 9.
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