Tom Foley gets back into the public-policy realm

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  1. Monica Vander says:

    Tom Foley is running again for something. Anything actually! It seems he doesn’t care if it is Governor or Senate or maybe Dog Catcher. He blew $11 Million on his failed race for Governor. His dirty laundry was aired, including the two arrests and the big mess at Bibb Corp. There is no way he will be elected to any major public office, not next year, not ever. He joins Ned Lamont as a failed rich guy from Greenwich with naive ideas about government. Both will repeatedly fail. Foley should hope for another cushy ambassador position, assuming he keeps contributing to the Republican Cronies network. His flailing around at trying to look legitimate is almost sad. Goodbye Mr. Foley, you gave it a good shot. The 3 Million people of CT do want a senior elected official who has to explain his arrests and his 116 foot yacht.

  2. monique thomas says:

    Many of the highest wage earners live near the southwestern border. When state income tax conditions shift in nearby states, these high wage earners sure as heck will vote with their feet. Many settled here before we had a state income tax so I would be led to believe this is a valid argument for migration in the event of lowered income tax rates in states such as NY and NJ. The higher income earners can just as easily commute from high-brow towns in those states.
    Because my millionare making friends aren’t spending much of their money for the last 2 years, I have been, at first severely under-employed and now on the roles full time. Yes, uncertainty in the direction the governments, both federally and state side are taking is the issue.

    The governments,at the top of our cash flow issues, have a spending problem. Well thought out solutions that consider the possible unintended consequences to reduce it without jeopardizing or delivering less than excellent service to the segments of society that truly are in need are available and being developed. Now is the time to get outside of the rut of policital expediency and put us on a road of honest, responsible and responsive business-like solutions.

  3. Liberty says:

    Tom Foley is right. However, very naive. Connecticut has depended on the cash cow of the Gold Coast for so long, they just kept spending and spending. Now, the Public sector earns more money and has more benefits and pensions than the private sector, except in the Gold Coast. The General Assembly has chased mostly all of the businesses out of Ct. and their owners spend 6 months and one day in other states. “Where the money be”. Not here, it’s in MA with Pfizer and 1,000 jobs.

  4. unionleo says:

    Great – another source for fiction repackaged as think-tank facts.
    The Princeton guys – maybe a slightly more credible source than a rich guy who hates taxes – have a different story about the subject of daddy big bucks outmigration
    http://www.princeton.edu/~cristo/Millionaire_Migration.pdf

    The bright side – if they all leave, the price of monster mansions will sink when they all flood the market – and maybe the rest of us plebes could pick up an underwater estate with a water view in a short sale.