Op-Ed: In Denial: Refusing to Face Budget Deficit Reality
As Republicans predicted during all the budget debates of this past year, Connecticut’s financial house is not in order and continues to struggle with an unbalanced budget. On the revenue side, tax receipts are down in every category: whether they are sales, income, gasoline or estate taxes as well as slot machine revenue Connecticut receives [...]
KEEPING JOBS IN CT
Earlier this week, Rep. Floren, along with members of the Greenwich Delegation and other House and Senate leaders, met with executives and employees at Avant Business Services of Stamford, CT to discuss the state budget and highlight the harmful impact the Democrats’ proposed $1.8 billion tax increase would have on Connecticut small businesses.Avant Vice President [...]
Floren urges Greenwich Residents to Read WSJ Op-ed
Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece on Tax Policy
REPS. FLOREN AND HETHERINGTON PROPOSE INCREASING PREVAILING WAGE THRESHOLD
HARTFORD- State Representatives Livvy Floren, R-149th and John Hetherington, R-125th District have introduced a bill this session to increase the prevailing wage threshold for municipal projects to five million dollars for new construction. The bill has been referred to the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee.
Reps. Floren and Hetherington’s proposal is to increase the [...]
GREENWICH DELEGATION: GOVERNOR’S BUDGET TOUGH BUT FAIR
HARTFORD- State Reps. Livvy Floren (R-149), Lile Gibbons (R-150) and Fred Camillo (R-151) applaud Governor M. Jodi Rell’s proposed fiscally responsible budget.
“The Governor has done a good job of producing a balanced budget over the next two years without raising taxes and without cutting critical services that the public has come to expect and truly [...]
“TIME FOR LEADERSHIP”
As the General Assembly begins the new legislative session the largest issue to be tackled remains the budget deficit. While the nation grapples with an economic recession worse than most people can remember, Connecticut, too, is facing biggest deficit in recent decades.
Connecticut is not alone. Thirty-seven states have significant budget deficits as a result of the [...]
