[cttransplant85]

CT loves people collectively bargaining; so the wealthy tax payers/Job creators should collectively bargain, get together and say lower the taxes, cut regulation, cut the spending and get your fiscal house in order or else we're all leaving, your revenues will crash and you will be insolvent. Put it in writing send it to Hartford. If they got even 25-30% of the top tax payers to sign the state government would have no choice.

[Henry10]

Originally Posted by JayCT

Florida is a big state and sure you can find rents like these but not in or near the bigger cities. Cheap rents there, like here, are cheap for a reason and that is tied to the pay and what people can afford to pay for rent. Jay

Govt skews / contorts "you get what you pay for." When a renter pays rent in CT, he also pays indirectly for state's bloated Balance sheet, pensions, Socialist programs. Landlord builds them into the rent.

[Matrix2791]

Originally Posted by MrGompers

Do you think Scott can teach Malloy how to steal 1.7 billion dollars and walk away ?

Malloy has already stole that and then some from CT taxpayers over the years...... Over taxation is legalized theft.

[MrGompers]

Originally Posted by Matrix2791

Malloy has already stole that and then some from CT taxpayers over the years...... Over taxation is legalized theft.

We really need to start an Ayn Rand fan club here.

[JayCT]

I thought this editorial in the Hartford Courant kind of sums up my feelings as well. A lot of good information on the differences between the states and why to me Connecticut comes out on top. I also found it interesting that while Connecticut loses some 53,000 residents a year to Florida, it gains approximately 32,000 from there as well. So much for the mass migration out of our state. Jay

Editorials - Hartford Courant

[Mike 75]

The problem is that the FL gov even feels that he can come here and poach our companies. That's more a reflection of the ineptness and tone deaf policies of the current administration than anything else.

[Henry10]

Originally Posted by JayCT

I thought this editorial in the Hartford Courant kind of sums up my feelings as well. A lot of good information on the differences between the states and why to me Connecticut comes out on top. I also found it interesting that while Connecticut loses some 53,000 residents a year to Florida, it gains approximately 32,000 from there as well. So much for the mass migration out of our state. Jay

Editorials - Hartford Courant

If it weren't for the poor immigrants moving into CT, CT would be losing a lot more. As we have shown -- CT is getting a double whammy -- losing productive taxpayers while importing poor who need services. Economically / fiscally -- this is race to the bottom.

FL, on the other hand has been gaining a lot on a demographic group you would expect the least -- young people

Young people flock to FLORIDA instead of New York to save money | Daily Mail Online

[MikefromCT]

Originally Posted by JayCT

I thought this editorial in the Hartford Courant kind of sums up my feelings as well. A lot of good information on the differences between the states and why to me Connecticut comes out on top. I also found it interesting that while Connecticut loses some 53,000 residents a year to Florida, it gains approximately 32,000 from there as well. So much for the mass migration out of our state. Jay

Editorials - Hartford Courant

I just love how this editorial writer downplays the problems this state is having, or just flat out ignores them. As always, the anonymous opinion pieces in this joke of a paper do nothing but act as lap dogs for Democrats in this state. So glad I stopped reading this garbage. What a waste. Maybe it's just me because I understand economics, but anyone who still defends this state unconditionally, as this idiot editorial writer does, has zero credibility.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by MikefromCT

I just love how this editorial writer downplays the problems this state is having, or just flat out ignores them. As always, the anonymous opinion pieces in this joke of a paper do nothing but act as lap dogs for Democrats in this state. So glad I stopped reading this garbage. What a waste. Maybe it's just me because I understand economics, but anyone who still defends this state unconditionally, as this idiot editorial writer does, has zero credibility.

No one is downplaying the problems our state is facing but they aren't running around like Chicken-Little crying "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" either. Despite what you think, The Hartford Courant is still one of the state's most highly respected newspapers and the FACTS presented in the editorial are real. Maybe you and a few others here should accept that. Jay

[SAE72]

Originally Posted by MikefromCT

I just love how this editorial writer downplays the problems this state is having, or just flat out ignores them. As always, the anonymous opinion pieces in this joke of a paper do nothing but act as lap dogs for Democrats in this state. So glad I stopped reading this garbage. What a waste. Maybe it's just me because I understand economics, but anyone who still defends this state unconditionally, as this idiot editorial writer does, has zero credibility.

Well great , you understand economics. However I am not a fan of the Courant, but in my view, Compared to CT Florida isn't even in the ballpark for quality of life on the grand scale. I could go down the list, and if you did want to talk economics, 70 % of the wage earners there earn less than $ 20.00 an hour. 37 % make less than $ 11.00. The Orange agricultural industry is in trouble , Florida has a HS graduation rate of 78 %, compared with 87 % for CT. They spend peanuts on Education. 72 %without a College Degree compared to 63 % in CT. If you want to talk about a future with low wage jobs, look down there first.


Florida has the second worst drinking water in the country. Huge problems with invasive species , gators , lizards , insects, you name it. My tap water is top quality.