Ask Them How?

Just a simple question: How?

"I'm going to cut your utility bills."... How?

"I'm going to cut the price of drugs."... How?

"I'm going to lower grocery prices."... How?

"I'm going to make housing more affordable."... How?

The devil is in the details!

That’s something no politician tells you. Why? Because they can’t! They don’t know either. But they’ll tell you what you want to hear.

Republicans Float $2B Cuts In Taxes, Costs

CT News Junkie

by Donald Eng

September 9, 2026

Legislative Republicans made their plea for voters to elect more members of their party in November, offering reductions or outright elimination of about a half-dozen taxes or fees in return.

“Affordability has become a buzzword for the Democrats we serve alongside, and they’ve spent the summer pointing fingers at Washington instead of looking in the mirror,” said House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora of North Branford. “Connecticut didn’t become one of the most expensive states in the country the day President Trump took office. It got that way over years of decisions made in this building, by the people and party that have controlled it,”

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Among the measures were an elimination on sales tax on meals sold in grocery stores, elimination of the public benefits charge on utility bills, a one-year gas tax holiday and an elimination of the highway use tax – a mileage-based tax on heavy commercial vehicles that helps fund road and bridge maintenance.

The centerpiece, though, is a scaled reduction in the state income tax for those earning $200,000 or less. That one proposal represents about half of what the group said was the $2 billion total.

So the question asks to be asked... HOW?

They are cutting taxes by 2 billion dollars... but where are they going to cut? All I hear is crickets.

What they did say is that they will take it from the budget surplus. However—and you know darn well that there is always a "however" or a "but" in politics—the budget surplus varies from year to year depending on the economy! The surplus is also used to pay down our long-term debt and the two major state pension obligations: the State Employees Retirement System (SERS) and the Teachers' Retirement System (STRS).

The Republicans haven't said anything about that! And if that isn't enough... what in the budget are they planning to cut? They Republicans want to treat the volatile surpluses as a bottomless piggy bank for sweeping tax cuts without explaining how they'll balance the math,