As Republicans predicted during all the budget debates of this past year, Connecticut’s financial house is not in order and continues to struggle with an unbalanced budget. On the revenue side, tax receipts are down in every category: whether they are sales, income, gasoline or estate taxes as well as slot machine revenue Connecticut receives [...]
Earlier this week, Rep. Camillo, along with members of the Greenwich Delegation and other House and Senate leaders, met with executives and employees at Avant Business Services of Stamford, CT to discuss the state budget and highlight the harmful impact the Democrats’ proposed $1.8 billion tax increase would have on Connecticut small businesses.
HARTFORD – In an effort to fuel stalled budget negotiations, Greenwich State Reps. Livvy Floren and Fred Camillo along with House and Senate Republicans today unveiled an alternative Real World budget plan to solve the state’s fiscal crisis through governmental consolidations and spending cuts, but maintains aid to towns and cities.
On April 2nd, the State Democrats in Hartford proposed the largest tax hike in the state’s history. They did not consolidate or eliminate one of the several, duplicative state agencies and commissions. Moreover, the union heavy workforce was not trimmed down at all, not even through attrition.
HARTFORD – In what can only be called another pilfering of taxpayers in Fairfield County, the Democrats today unleashed a budget that increases income, corporate and estate taxes as well as eliminates many sales tax exemptions. Rep. Fred Camillo and Sen. Scott Frantz, both members of the Appropriations Committee voted against a proposed two-year state [...]
