No Tolls

This talk about tolls is just more proof of the incompetence of the CT legislature under Gov. Malloy and the democrats. It is nothing but tax and spend. Vehicle owners pay a sales tax when they purchase the vehicle, yearly taxes to towns and cities, taxes on the tires, repairs and maintenance of the vehicles and one of the highest gas taxes in the country. Despite all that instead of operating as a private company which can not just arbitrarily raise rates so they look for cost cutting methods all the CT legislature does is take more money from the workers with no concern what it does to their families budget and their lives.

I think it is time the Mass Transit system and the busway to nowhere starts paying for itself. I don't mean a profit, however it should cover all its own expenses without using taxpayers dollars. All its vehicles, salaries, fuel, maintenance and money for the up keep of the roads should be covered by the fares charged. If routes don't cover their costs they need to be eliminated, or if other routes make more than enough to cover themselves that money could be used for the lower performing routes. This is business 101 you have to make enough money to cover your expenses,apparently our democratic lawmakers never took the course or if they did they flunked it. It is time the middle class workers in CT got a break. The American Dream was to be able to better yourself, in CT that is not true all the democratic lawmakers here do is find ways to make sure we will never achieve the American Dream through their Tax and spend attitude.

No More closed doors

One major issue that has caused the financial destruction of Connecticut is that our Elected Public Servants have forgotten that they are Servants not Rulers.

Our Elected Public Servants do not feel they answer to us but rather that we answer to them. This is very apparent when it comes to spending our, the taxpayers money on contracts. If we want to make Connecticut Great Again we need to have total control over the spending done by our elected public servants. As each one of us knows in our personal finances we can not spend more then we make. We can not run ourselves into debt and demand our employers pay us more to get us out of debt. Why should our public servants be able to do that? Why should they be able to treat the taxpaying citizens of Connecticut as an unlimited ATM with no concern of what it does to our personal finances and lives? Enough is enough!

Why are most if not all negotiations held behind closed doors! The only dealings the government should be doing behind closed doors is if directly relates to security. Security of the citizens. This means how we are being protected from terrorist threats, or how they hunt down child molesters, drug dealers. These things need to be kept secret.

Every contract that is entered into by the government be it for paper clips or rebuilding roads and buildings needs to be put out for open bid and all those bids and negotiations need to be open to the public and the media. This goes the same for all contracts for all unions and all other personnel hired by and employed by the citizens of Connecticut. No closed door deals! Everything out in the open for the public and media to view and report on. This back door dealing, you scratch my back I'll scratch yours is what has destroyed Connecticut! We need to replace all the elected public servants in Hartford with people who will make the Taxpaying Legal Citizens of Connecticut their priority, not the unions and the corporations that have bled Connecticut dry.

Privatize

I think you could cut 50% of the federal budget and increase services if it was run like a private business, Rather than a bureaucracy that treats the taxpayers as an unlimited ATM!

Minimum Wage

The raising of the minimum wage will do nothing to help anyone. It is another “feel good” move pushed by socialists to maintain control over lower income voters.

The issue is not how much someone is paid. The issue is how much money is taken out of their check by state and federal taxes. Taxes, that it appears especially in CT that we taxpayers have little to no say in how they are spent. Our elected public servants from the Governor on down have forgotten they are our representatives not our rulers. These public servants speak in terms of millions and billions of dollars which are abstract numbers to most people. It is about time they start speaking in numbers we can see, understand and feel in our bank accounts. We should know how much the busway to nowhere takes out of our weekly pay checks? How about exorbitant pensions, drivers licenses for illegals. Let's not forget using tax dollars for electric cars. Do these things take for example $50 a week out of a $400 paycheck? If that is so by removing them from the budget the person making $400 per week would have an extra $200 or more a month in their pocket to spend. That's where the money should be in the wage earners bank account. The raising of the minimum wage will do nothing except raise the amount of taxes you pay. Then businesses will be required them to raise their prices to cover their costs. You will not be able to buy more. You will just have been hoodwinked by the socialists. What needs to happen is the reigning in of government spending which will lower taxes and keep more money in the wage earners bank account.

Atomic Bomb

I met a man today, he saw my USAF Veterans hat and thanked me for my service and informed me he was in when it was the Army Air Corp back in 1944. I thanked him for his service and he started to talk about some islands he visited in the Pacific back then. I asked how the beaches were, he said the beaches were beautiful if and when you could see them. He allowed he was 90 years old and very luck he made it this far. One reason he said he said he was still alive was because there was one beach he didn't have to walk on, because had he walked it then he and I wouldn't have been having this conversation. I've spoken to many WWII vets over my lifetime and while I'm sure some of them could have been waiting to walk on the same beach they never had to either and never mentioned it. What beach in the Pacific was this beach you're wondering, wonder no more, the beach was the island of Japan. Yes, this man was one of the 250,000 men scheduled to die in the invasion of Japan. He allowed that they were told upwards of one million casualties could be expected should the invasion take place. He said they were all overjoyed when they heard the Atomic bomb was dropped and they would live. While he felt bad for the casualties he was happy he was alive. He said if if it wasn't for those 2 bombs, his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren would never have been born and enjoyed life. That also included the offspring of the quarter million men who would have died storming that last beach and those of the three quarters of a million casualties who again would have left no descendants to keep America Free. We only talked for about 10 minutes and when he walked out as spry as he was at 90 I could still see that Army Air Corp man of 18 standing tall and proud. I never learned his name but will treasure these few moments for the rest of my life, as he left and when I think of him from now on I will offer a prayer for him and the others who lived and those who died to Defend the Constitution and the United States of America during WWII and all the wars before and after.

Protect the Biker Lifestyle

Jack Nicholson in Easy Rider “They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em”

To my fellow bikers, it doesn't matter what you ride from touring HD's to Goldwings, BMW, sport bikes, trikes. Whether you ride with a club, or solo, or just with friends, short rides on weekends to long range touring, if you are in wind your lifestyle and mine is in jeopardy.

As Jack's character says we represent “Freedom” and those that want to rule this country don't like that.

Unless you are living under a rock you are aware of what is going on in politics now and probably don't see how it affects your riding your bike, I'm here to tell you it does.

The ruling elite have already taken over the media, no more Woodward & Bernstein to expose a corrupt President, no truth in what they say anymore they are just a propaganda arm of the government.

They are after the gun owners now because once America is disarmed they can do what they want to do with no consequences.

How does this affect my riding my motorcycle you wonder, it's simple the ruling elite don't want you on one because you can go where you want when you want. This is why they are pushing electric cars and smart cars because you can only travel short distances in the electric cars and they control and know exactly where you go in the smart cars. They want you on a bus or train under their schedule and control. Also they are pushing the EU socialism and over there they tell you in some case what color clothing you have to wear, and if it has to be reflective. You are not allowed to work in your own bike in most countries and they control what accessories you can have added at the “approved” shops. Watching these Freedom hating socialist/communists all my life I see them pushing for a total ban under the guise of safety. Will the ban happen in my lifetime? Maybe not I'm an old bastard, but it will happen unless we stand up now and fight it. If it happens your own riding lifestyle will be cut short and your children and grandchildren will never experience the Freedom of the wind in their hair and the their knees in the breeze and you will only have you to look in the mirror to see who stole this Freedom from them if you didn't vote.

I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, there are too many local and state races out there along with the Presidential and many other federal races you have to look into it. See what they say about guns, refugees, get in touch with your states Motorcycle Rights Org. (In CT it is the C.M.R.A.) then VOTE! If you never voted get out there and register and get to the polls on election day! Get you family, your club brother and sisters, your riding friends to do the same! The future of America and our Freedom Loving Biker Lifestyle is on the line this election!

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Jim BONZ Neilson

Mileage tax???

Let me get this straight! Vehicle owners pay sales tax when they purchase the vehicle, then a yearly property tax, add to that registration every two years with a fee for the clean air fund, and an emissions test (fee) you would have thought those two would be the same. Also state and federal taxes on every gallon of gas they buy. Now due to the incompetence of the state elected public servants who should have been using the monies generated by the fees and taxes just listed on road maintenance, but instead it was spent on , illegals, insane pensions for civil servants, and who knows what ever else they could come up with in the way of grants or paying back those who supported them, put into the General Fund everything but what it was supposed to be used for. Now because of their incompetence they want to charge us by the mile? We already pay that in the gas tax!. Also since not everyone can afford any additional taxes and fees isn't charging us to travel restricting our freedom? I thought that is what America is about Freedom to travel, to earn and keep your money things along those lines. No one in private sector would keep their job if they were this incompetent. This present group of elected public servants need to be removed from office for gross financial incompetence and sued individually by the taxpayers of this state. Also I would question the Constitutionality of requiring the tracking of vehicles. Could this be used against people? Could these coordinates be called into divorce proceedings, disability hearings, actually violate the 5^th Amendment against self incrimination by putting a vehicle in certain locations? And let's us not forget the biggest issue driving more people to leave the state.