Connecticut is circling the drain. Time for a change.

By Bill Lalor October 23, 2018

Connecticut Democrats' evasive campaigns are an insult to voters. Let's put this bluntly: the 2018 elections are as close as we will ever get to a referendum on Democratic economic policy in Connecticut. Voters are right to want answers. In spite of a economic and job boom across the country, Connecticut's "death spiral" is accelerating.

 Taxes keep going up, jobs are disappearing, and property values are in the tank. Connecticut's budget deficit in 2020 will be $1.9 billion; in 2021, it will be about $2.5 billion. Those are just pick-up notes to more staggering problems, as more taxpayers move out of the state and the death spiral accelerates.

Connecticut's mess is Democrats' to explain: they have controlled the state budget process for 38 of the last 40 years............Further, among Connecticut's all-Democrat delegation in Washington, those defending seats have held office an aggregate total of 72 years, including both the U.S. House and this year's contested U.S. Senate race.

If Democrat incumbents want to convince voters they can now fix Connecticut's unprecedented crisis, they ought to at least explain what they've been doing all these years. But Democrats are mostly avoiding their own records and, in large part, the voters.

The single most ruinous expense for Connecticut is public-sector union pensions......... Read more