Thursday, December 21, 2006

House Republicans Plan for Session

From the AP wire:
There may only be 44 of them, but members of the state's House Republican caucus said Thursday that they'll make their presence known when the legislature meets in January.
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The group plans to push for a bill to create a new first-time home buyers fund. The state income taxes of recent college graduates who remain in Connecticut would be put in investment accounts that could be tapped to buy homes.

House Republicans also hope to exempt senior citizens' pensions from the state income tax and create new portable health care plans that workers can take from job to job.

The idea of a first-time home buyers fund for college grads who stay in Connecticut is intriguing.

Source
"Small House GOP caucus vows to be heard next session." Associated Press 21 December, 2006.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rell announced she accepted the resignations of Commissioners:

Dunbar (DCF), Abromaitis (DECD), Cogswell (DOI), Wilson-Coker (DSS), and Ramirez (DMV). She is also giving the boot to Jennifer Aniskovich, Director of the Tourism Commission. That last one was probably particularly sweet for Relloody, who have made it a sport to crap on all-things-Aniskovich (you're better off mentioning Rowland's name in their company).

Anonymous said...

Cafero begging Amann to be taken serious.

Anonymous said...

the UI execs who make a ton of money, the state mployees and teachers who enjoy great pensions and a whole lot of other folks who have their pensions funded by pre-tax-dollars would never pay raxes on their earned income if the Republicans have their way. sounds fair to me. and makes sense since Cafero's old man is a greedy old CT public eduction employee himself - Cafero wants to give back on the backs of the current taxpayer. states that don;t tax pensions - or IRA's or 401K's - don;t allow the deduction up front - that's smart and fair. .

Anonymous said...

Cafero's father isn't the former HS principal from Norwalk? And all public education employees aren't greedy? OK, glad to hear the Republicans are turning around on that.

Anonymous said...

Cafero is still in campaign mode with gallo by his side. Don't they get it, they lost the election on this stuff. Seniors are buckling under the property tax, not the income tax. Not all of them get government pensions and healthcare and not all of them sheltered their money from taxes in retriement plans along the way so they are dipping into savings but not retirement savings. They'd be smart to try to find consensus on property tax reform to accomplish what they want. Less reliance on the property tax would help the senior citizens in tough spots as well as young homebuyers. BTW, this giving kids a break straight out of college sounds more like a way for mommy and daddy to help their kid get a house than some smart public policy. How many college kids buy houses right sfter grdiation?

Anonymous said...

A vocal but irrelevant minority. Anything else that's not new?