Connecticut Democrats to millionaires: Get out!

extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

If you’re not willing to stay here and be fleeced then, damn you, go away — who needs you?

HARTFORD — A proposal from Senate President Pro Tempore Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, would force the state’s wealthiest to pay higher taxes, without raising the income tax.

Looney’s bill, awaiting action in the legislative Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee, would create a statewide 1 percent property tax, forcing those with higher-value homes to pay more, whether or not they live in the state.

It would also end local taxes on motor vehicles, creating a statewide vehicular tax of between 15 and 19 mills.

“This is looking to target high-income people with high assets, some of whom play the game of living out-of-state for six months and a day,” Looney said in an interview. “One thing about the property tax is it’s the most reliable to predict. This idea has more progressivity.”

A large number of state residents: gardeners, attorneys, and plumbers among them, earn a decent living serving the needs of the wealthy. But no, these people must go.