ONLINE FEEDBACK

When The Day carried the Connecticut Mirror story, “Progressive legislators to Lamont: Tax the rich and expand support for poor and middle-class,” it caused a stir among theday.com readers.

“Okay sure. The richest people left in CT will be SNAP recipients. Wait, what? LOL. These whackos greatly overestimate Connecticut’s charms while greatly underestimating the lure of southern tax domiciles.”

— Lynn Young

“With remote tech (video conf.) and now that Covid has forced companies to provide remote work why not work in Florida from your home office with your employer in NY and CT? CT and the high tax states are underestimating people. People have choices and those that can afford to leave will.”

— Evan Andriopoulos

“At some point Democrats are going to run out of other people’s money to spend. Raising taxes on anyone has an adverse effect on population, jobs and the economy. California, New York, Rhode Island are going to lose House seats because their population is moving to low tax low regulation states. Wealth is mobile.”

— Keith J. Robbins

“Insanity. I am extremely embarrassed that these are the plans of the state I live in. Even more embarrassed that the people that are supposed to represent us are so clueless.”

— Andrew Blacker

“Some Rich Folk have become that way because of their own hard work. They took risk and put in long hard working hours to make it work. In many cases, it didn’t happen overnight.”

— William Dennis

“The top 1% own wealth equal to 90% of the rest of us. Fairness is not a GOP value. Wealth inequality is a product of government policy, it naturally tends to increase over time, and is much more extreme than most people realize. The (federal) Republican tax plan exacerbated it as most went to the top 1%, but is increasing taxes for the rest of us. Hard work is taxed much more heavily than rent or investment income.”

— Robert Vogel