The state of Kommiecticut is a commie socialist shithole, no two ways about it. Decades of single party rule has absolutely destroyed any semblance of what could be considered normal life. While we have had Republican governor's they resigned from office and did prison time for corruption or were squishy RINO's. Believe it or not, IMHO the last best governor we had was Ella Grasso, an old school Democrat. Certainly not the lefty loon commie Demon-Craps of today!
Ryan Fazio is the Republican candidate running against that blooming idiot Jolly Ned Lamont up for re-election to a third term! In his latest video campaign ad, Fazio says he loves CT, but it's gotten terrible after the last 8 years under Lamont. Oh, how wrong he is!
This state has been a shithole for the last 35 YEARS! Let me list the negatives for you:
- Implementation of a state income tax in 1991 that was supposed to go away in two years after fixing the budget. 35 years and still going strong and they spend EVERY MOTHER FUCKING PENNY - PLUS!!
- Gun control starting with the state's own AWB in 1994 that mirrored the federal one but without a sunset clause.
- New fees (because if they call it a fee they don't consider it a tax) and expanded fees on occupational licenses and permits.
- Every year more and more onerous regulations too numerous to list.
- Starting with the city of New Haven under the De Stefano administration, the declaration of "Sanctuary City" which expanded to more and more cities, and finally expanded to a sanctuary state, though not really officially declared as such, but the policies make it one.
- Which lead to allowing ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS to vote in local elections only. (But if you have a voter registration, just who would bother checking your immigration status? NO ONE FFS!!)
- Then there is the full adoption of Obongocare, making health insurance totally unaffordable if you work and your employer doesn't offer benefits. Those that can't be bothered to work or the ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS get it for free of course.
- More gun control post Sandy Hook with an expansion of the state AWB and a magazine ban/restriction
- Removal of the property tax credit and then skyrocketing property taxes
- More gun control requiring a state pistol permit/long gun permit/ammunition card to just buy ammo. Because we know the local street punk buys quality ammo at Cabela's. Also included is no more private firearm transfers without state authorization and registration.
- A program that allows family members to be state paid caregivers to the infirm and elderly. BUT.... you become a pseudo state union worker and must pay dues to SEIU.
- More fees added: an "ALL ACCESS" $15 fee added to your vehicle registration renewal to allow state residents to use the state parks for free. There was only a parking fee on the weekend for everyone. Now the state parks are overflowing and closed early filled with out of state residents and you get turned away. If an out of state resident gets turned away, they keep their money in their pocket and go some place else. I get turned away and there is NO REFUND, I am simply fucked out of my money. We always only go on weekdays anyway when there is never a parking fee so just free money for the state. The other biggie is the "PUBLIC BENEFIT" charge on my electric bill. During COVID, if you didn't pay your bill, the state made it illegal to shut you off. Well, many people took advantage of that and simply didn't pay their bill. The state paid the bills, and now they are using the power company as tax collector to refill state coffers. It is a percentage of your usage electric bill.
- The state now dictates how many and what type of houses are built in every town, overruling local building ordinances and zoning boards. They are forcing small rural towns like mine to become shitholes like their cities with "affordable housing" which is their racist code words for low income/subsidized housing or simply expansion of their GHETTO!
- Yet more gun control with the implementation of the so-called "Glock Ban" because we all know THAT IS THE LAW that will stop the feral street thugs from putting giggle switches on their pieces, huh? As us gun people know, such a law bans way more than just Glocks, it bans every single handgun with a cruciform trigger bar, which is most semi-autos on the market today.
It goes on and on with obnoxious minutiae that adds up to so much in the background you just can't imagine. I am only still here because my wife will not leave, and if I left her to go that would leave me with a much different financial picture. My wife has been told that if anything happens to her, in the midst of her funeral arrangements I will hold a giant in-house moving sale and list the house. I will net close to $1M in cash and leave this fucking shithole so fast no one will realize I am gone until it's too late.
I only list modern history back to 1991 when I really started paying attention as an adult. But it could be said this state went off the rails going back to the War of 1812, and the rest of New England even discussed the idea of secession. The history of fucking idiots here is indeed long.