CTNotPC

CTNotPC t1_jebz4al wrote

I got a bud that works for a well drilling company. He has a background. I also know someone who is a machine operator for a construction company (also with a record). Both make enough to have their own place, car and take decent vacations.

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CTNotPC t1_je9jfen wrote

Giving free money is not a solution. Making programs like help re-introduce criminals from prison to society would be more helpful. Give an addict $500 bucks, is going to be spent on drugs. Give an addict help, training, and a solid program for him/her to reintegrate to society is a better option

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CTNotPC t1_je9a5n3 wrote

I find it astonishing how CT just likes throwing money for solutions instead of making enforceable and equitable legislature to help solve the root problem.

Got a drug problem? Here is $100 bucks. Good luck. Cant find a job because you got a record? Here is some money, good luck. Suffer from mental illness? Here is some dough, good luck.

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CTNotPC t1_je21ncj wrote

I want as well but come on. Raise ur hand if u can afford a house in a low crime area, standard property taxes?

Edit: i think we are in a state of denial. Taxes make it almost impossible to own. Add insurance, government red tape for small business. CT needs to change

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CTNotPC t1_jb9m4av wrote

Absolutely not true.

What is bigger to manage, 169 micro governments that can’t efficiently agree on EMS, school, firefighter, police, public work projects vs 8 counties that can manage resources.

Right now the state forces towns to form their own groups to save money, like the Northwest Hills Council of Governments. Towns cant afford proper planning or employ people to meet the never ending state mandates on all towns, no matter their size. This is the only way some towns can meet state requirements.

We are so fractured and divided as a state that we waste resources (tax payer money) because of wasteful but required town expenditures. It would be far more efficient to have a county system. It would also standardize procedures.

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CTNotPC t1_jb79d17 wrote

We dont like change. We say we are progressive but the minute you want to optimize ways of government, the people that have been sucking on the sweet taste of tax payer funded careers will fight it with everything they got.

The county system would save us so much money. Imagine having an organized EMS management system for firefighters, police, health, education and management. Instead towns need to allocate these resources, share them, and when you call 911 for an ambulance, it may be coming from two towns over.

Even property taxes, car taxes, and water districts can be optimized with a county system lol

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CTNotPC t1_ja7ro54 wrote

Small dick syndrome. Men with micro penises invest their minimum wage earnings into making small cars into loud and obnoxious machines to attract attention.

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