If Hartford wants to be a capital of anything besides itself, it should stop rolling up the sidewalks at 5:30PM on the average Friday. City is dull with a capital DUH. Nice people, don’t get me wrong, and I’ved lived and worked there, but a city shouldn’t necessarily be something to escape from at the first opportunity.
I lived and worked in Hartford and loved it. RB is correct, unfortunately, the city becomes a ghost town when the insurance industry goes home. Anything that can bring that city back and add to the state makes me a happy ex-Connecticut resident.
Malloy won’t be able to get any new companies into this state with a paulty $7,500 tax credit. He and his cronies passed the largest tax increase in the state’s history. He’s all about fee-ing businesses to death, just passed an employee leave policy, some of the highest businesses taxes in the country, along with the highest gas taxes in the country. Retirees are leaving the state in droves, because they can’t afford to live here.
State employees are taking their pensions and benefits and leaving the rest of us to pay them.
Every congressman, every senator, and most of the state legislature in Connecticut is Democrat. Need I say more.
Everybody is 90 minutes from somewhere. The key question is – – would I rather set up my captive in Hartford, or Bermuda / Caymans / Vermont / etc. What’s the draw? No sunshine on the beach, no mountains of fun, not even a hockey team anymore.
This is almost laughable. This is the same state whose governor tried to force insurance companies to waive their WHH deductible after Irene. If they really want to attract business maybe they should start with lowering taxes (corporate and personal) and reducing burdensome regulation.
If Hartford wants to be a capital of anything besides itself, it should stop rolling up the sidewalks at 5:30PM on the average Friday. City is dull with a capital DUH. Nice people, don’t get me wrong, and I’ved lived and worked there, but a city shouldn’t necessarily be something to escape from at the first opportunity.
I lived and worked in Hartford and loved it. RB is correct, unfortunately, the city becomes a ghost town when the insurance industry goes home. Anything that can bring that city back and add to the state makes me a happy ex-Connecticut resident.
Malloy won’t be able to get any new companies into this state with a paulty $7,500 tax credit. He and his cronies passed the largest tax increase in the state’s history. He’s all about fee-ing businesses to death, just passed an employee leave policy, some of the highest businesses taxes in the country, along with the highest gas taxes in the country. Retirees are leaving the state in droves, because they can’t afford to live here.
State employees are taking their pensions and benefits and leaving the rest of us to pay them.
Every congressman, every senator, and most of the state legislature in Connecticut is Democrat. Need I say more.
Ah, BD you forgot one really good thing – with the Tobacco lobby in the valley, smokes is cheep!
he’s never going to be able to solve the problem of boston 90 minutes to the north and NYC 90 minutes to the south…
Everybody is 90 minutes from somewhere. The key question is – – would I rather set up my captive in Hartford, or Bermuda / Caymans / Vermont / etc. What’s the draw? No sunshine on the beach, no mountains of fun, not even a hockey team anymore.
This is almost laughable. This is the same state whose governor tried to force insurance companies to waive their WHH deductible after Irene. If they really want to attract business maybe they should start with lowering taxes (corporate and personal) and reducing burdensome regulation.