It means it has nice new shiny appliances.

You'll be fine. At worst you can give them your name, DOB and/or social and they look it up to verify you are a licensed driver in good standing.

I wonder what percentage of people working in restaurants are doing so under the table or ineligible for employment?

DD cups are the best cups.

Sounds like an unsustainable business model if you can't pay employees a living wage.

Yes. No one should be making less than minimum wage.

Does that actually work? What would really be useful is something that prevents plates from being recorded by red light cameras or the cameras at tolls.

They are doing their jobs. I'm certainly no apologist for them, but they work long and odd hours and don't have an easy job.

There are videos of pursuits almost weekly on local news. I mean clearly based on video evidence they are allowed to pursue.

Chases still happen, and the accountability bill has little impact other than cops can't use the ol' "I smell weed" as a pretext.

If you see one they are most likely working on administrative bulls*it and are just trying to sit somewhere central to their patrol area so they can respond to a call within their assigned area quickly. For those whose areas are mainly highway, the priority is clearing disabled vehicles and accidents to prevent traffic jams and the additional fender benders those bring.

Outside of holidays when they have extra staff on I would not expect much traffic enforcement. This is how it has been for nearly two decades now since the steep decline in officers began.

You don't argue the point on the basis of income tax exclusively unless you have an agenda to push. Maybe you aren't in the loop, but it's almost word for word what gets pumped out daily by every Koch funded group. You see the same s*it here, on Facebook, in the media, so yeah, by that definition it doesn't seem "radical" because "everyone is saying it." The script almost writes itself: "I was recently in Ohio, and a big man, strong man, worked on the railroad his whole life and you could see it you know what I mean, came up to me, tears in his eyes, and said Mr. Trump I've lost everything and I don't have much, but please take more of my money so that income taxes are more fair because it's just so sad what we're doing to the rich people in this country treating them like dogs."

The original argument was that poor people don't pay taxes. I am refuting that because it is simply not true. That's all that is happening here. OP wanted to peddle their right wing propaganda, and I am calling them out on it. The entire argument is literally what gets put out daily by conservative "think tanks" and "study committees" funded by the top 0.01%, and Americans, bless their hearts, happily eat it up.

The people that benefit most from society and "the system" get to pay more in taxes for that privilege. That's just how it works in a progressive tax system. Most of the state's revenue comes from income and sales/use tax. In the 2021-22 fiscal year, the state took in $12B in income tax and $6B in sales tax which combined made up 72% of all revenue. Is it poor people or rich people that pay the bulk of that $6B in sales tax that accounts for nearly one quarter of the state's revenue? If anyone cares you can read all about it here: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DRS/Research/annualreport/DRS-FY22-Annual-Report.pdf

It isn't the "other guy." Every single person in the state pays taxes in one way or another. Cheery picking income taxes while ignoring all other revenue and who contributes to it is someone not arguing in good faith. The talking points are always structured exactly the same way and don't even try to hide the real message: we need lower taxes for the super rich and corporations. Only dumb people fall for this s*it.

These are the same dumb arguments that go on at the federal level. This is nothing new and we've all seen this movie before. We can't continually live in fear that some group of richie rich types are gonna pick up and go live in some non-existent utopia where the quality of life is super high and taxes super low. If someone finds such a place, please let me know. Ironically the people that whine about this the most are those that don't have a pot to piss in - gotta carry that water for and be loyal to the top 1% and the corporations for they will surely reward you, Joe Q. Littleguy!

Make no mistake, any tax rate above 0.0% is too much for the rich.

What does party affiliation have to do with it?

Very little for the shoreline. Lots of cold rain for us.

Let's not forget without NYC Connecticut is basically West Rhode Island.

Wasn't that already investigated or looked into?

South Carolina wants to execute a woman for taking abortion pills. But yeah totally the same as Connecticut!

They're pretty good for a northern state. did you know there are northern states that have unpaved roads and/or have signs saying "road not maintained in winter?" Can you imagine people in CT putting up with their road not being plowed in the winter?

Main roads and highways will be fine. I'd be careful on the lesser traveled back roads in the hill towns though.