[hartford_renter]

Originally Posted by RunD1987

Biggest issue is the State cuts funds to vital service's. Reduces State work force, but im doing so people just work more OT. State contributes too much to pension. Sends too much money to Cities/Towns and too invested in City/Town affairs. Spends money on projects without planning on how to fund projects as they continue. Too dependent on taxes to keep the Budget afloat. Raise cost of State service's to the public such as higher education.

The state doesn't send money to the cities and towns. The state collects taxes from the rich and their money goes to poor cities like Hartford.

And yet Hartford is still going bankrupt despite all that money from the taxpayers in the suburbs.

We need real spending cuts and the Democrats aren't prepared to do it the truth is they never were.

Malloy raised taxes and spending. We have never had a spending cut in our entire state's history. The only thing left is bankruptcy.

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Will RBS leave CT

Layoffs continue at RBS

What caught my eye is UBS is down to 900. That's about half of where UBS Nashville is heading. This industry, like many, is most likely going to spread itself out to new (for it) US cities more and more.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by BPt111

Will RBS leave CT

Layoffs continue at RBS

Is that a question? It is just 23 employees being let go, not 2,300. Barely worth mentioning and certainly not worth a front page article. Jay

[BPt111]

Originally Posted by JayCT

Is that a question? It is just 23 employees being let go, not 2,300. Barely worth mentioning and certainly not worth a front page article. Jay

They been laying off 20-40 employees every few months past year

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by BPt111

They been laying off 20-40 employees every few months past year

Have they? How do you know? Jay

[Lalalally]

Originally Posted by JayCT

Is that a question? It is just 23 employees being let go, not 2,300. Barely worth mentioning and certainly not worth a front page article. Jay

I think the point is that it's an ongoing downsizing over the past 2 years. Beginning in 2015 to date, they have let go 600 employees, but in stages. This is the latest round of layoffs. And more are coming by year end 2017.

[UconnHusky1]

Originally Posted by Lalalally

I think the point is that it's an ongoing downsizing over the past 2 years. Beginning in 2015 to date, they have let go 600 employees, but in stages. This is the latest round of layoffs. And more are coming by year end 2017.

Bank of America is moving a portion of its crisis management function from NYC and they will takeover the massive trading floor RBS currently resides on (6th floor). RBS will move to some vacant space on the 10th floor. Ultimately the RBS building will be fully occupied. However, what's very concerning is the completely vacant UBS building....

[cttransplant85]

C'mon guys; you have to see that spending needs to be cut. The public unions should not have a contract that extends for 10 years, this is ridiculous. They see the writing on the wall that we will probably have a republican governor and at least a republican upper chamber next year and are looking to tie their hands. If this passes people with capital are going to flee the state. Take a stand against organized public labor for once, this is not fair to the tax payer.

[East of the River]

Originally Posted by hartford_renter

The state doesn't send money to the cities and towns. The state collects taxes from the rich and their money goes to poor cities like Hartford.

And yet Hartford is still going bankrupt despite all that money from the taxpayers in the suburbs.

We need real spending cuts and the Democrats aren't prepared to do it the truth is they never were.

Malloy raised taxes and spending. We have never had a spending cut in our entire state's history. The only thing left is bankruptcy.

Actually I believe every town gets some state transfer. The lower income ones just get a larger transfer. But even town like West Hartford and Wallingford get fairly large transfers.

https://ctmirror.org/2017/02/08/see-...oposed-budget/

[East of the River]

Originally Posted by MrGompers

I suppose there's a lot of variables with the co pays. I was in line at CVS last year and the person in front of me got a prescription and the copay was 3$. What's funny is the person acted surprised, like 3$ was too high. Some of my prescription copay's are up to 80$ now.

Personally for me the first insurance policy I remember that had copay's was around 1996 and this was at The Phoenix insurance company.

Before The Phoenix I worked at a hotel and had insurance thru them, but no copay's whatsoever. This was roughly 1993-1996.

It really depends I had $5 dr visit copays until 2003. Now $30. Generic prescription on my current plan is $5 Used to be $15 back in 2003.

I had a neighbor who worked for a property management company that gave him 100% paid medical no copays no premium nothing. He also got a healthy 401K match 30 vacation days a year and other crazy benefits. He managed to get himself fired thou.