AREN'T THEY ALL DEMOCRATS?

In Connecticut, (home to Senator Chris Dodd, whose committee he chaired for Ted Kennedy authored much of the health care "reform" bill), the Connecticut legislature is working on a two-year budget. A major component is raising the tax on the rich. Which is kinda rich when you consider how easy the rich evade taxes. Take millionaire Charlie Rangel, Chairman of the powerful U.S. House Ways and Means Committee that is charged with writing the tax laws, who is himself a tax evader. WSJ
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The new budget in Connecticut calls for a so-called "Millionaires' tax" which increases income taxes for those with taxable incomes over $1 million for joint filers, $800,000 for heads of households and $500,000 for single filers and married people filing separately. So you don't even have to be a millionaire to pay the new tax increases. (Legislators shown deliberating budget.)

Corporations get a 10% surcharge through 2011, with exemption for small businesses. Obviously, they won't get the same pass that millionare U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner got when he didn't pay his taxes. Wiki And millionaire Chris Dodd has never explained the low-balled cost of his Irish property. Or those Countrywide loans.

Oh, and the mayor of Hartford, the capitol of Connecticut, announced that he would be arrested FOR THE SECOND TIME this year and faces more criminal charges. Did we mention that he, too, was a community activist? Wiki

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From the lips of the Associated Press: "The charges against Perez threaten to add his name to a steadily growing list of crooked politicians that has given the state the nickname Corrupticut."