Home rule for New Canaan

Each year, New Canaan taxpayers send hundreds of millions of dollars to our state government in return for the government sending about 1% of that money back to our town. While the politicians in Hartford keep our
tax dollars to spend as they wish, the money that comes back arrives burdened with expensive mandates. Now that the state has squandered the money that we sent them, they are coming to loot New Canaan.

Their plan has three main elements

1) Eliminate the few dollars of state funds that manage to make it back home.

2) Keep the mandates. We used to have strings attached. Now we just get the strings.

3) Shift the burden of their reckless fiscal policies to us.

Each element points to the failure of state central planning and the need for greater local control over our own affairs. Click here to continue reading...