Friday April 24, 2009
Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, the Democratic gubernatorial explorer, recorded “On The Record” this morning at CPTV studios in Hartford. Malloy told host Steve Kotchko that he favors a progressive tax, which is code for taxing the rich at a higher rate than the rest of us.
He took a shot at Gov. Jodi Rell’s February budget, which contained no new taxes or cuts in municipal aid, but was about $2 billion in the red.
“If you ignore billions of dollars in deficits, anyone can balance the budget,” Malloy said.
The show will air tonight at 8:30, 10 a.m. Sunday and 11 p.m. on Tuesday. It’s also available right now on CPTV’s Web site. And hey, if you’re a state employee and it’s 3:40 on Friday – so you’re not working anyway – why not spend the rest of your workshift watching Malloy, followed at the end by Susan Haigh of the Associated Press and the Blogster speak with Kotchko about the gay-marriage legislation that Rell signed into law Thursday?
The Blogster wanted to ask why committed same-sex couple shouldn’t have a chance for the same kind of unhappiness that many heterosexual couples experience, but we ran out of time.
Why the scare quotes? The word progressive has a well-understood meaning in the context of tax policy, and Malloy favors it.
There’s no code to it. You either favor progressive, flat, or regressive taxation.
Comment by mattw — April 24th, 2009 @ 4:54 pm