Connecticut Property Tax

I call everyone's attention to the current PATCH article concerning Connecticut's overdependence on Property Tax.

Five years ago, I wrote some articles on property tax. Here are some excerpts from one of them:

"Our local geographical area did not fare well during this past CT Legislative session regarding the issue of reducing Town dependence on Property Tax. Despite an effort by Governor Rell herself to address this issue, the subject eroded into yet another conflict between the Republicans and Democrats.

For two years in a row, no real progress has been made.

Some of our existing local legislators were voted into office because many of us felt that they would be able to help accomplish the task of getting our local governments away from dependence on the property tax. Running out of time, these legislators are now tasked with finally accomplishing this in the next legislative session.

They need to find a way for both political parties to cooperate on solutions, rather than to continually get bogged down criticizing each other in the press, as has happened lately.

Otherwise, they should find some other pastime and leave politics because far too many of us are fed up with being taxed on unrealized gains, completely out of proportion to our incomes. For us older folks who have lived in our homes and served our communities for 30 to 50 years, it is now the primary political issue of our lives."

We have another chance now to correct this problem in Hartford. There's an election for area representatives and senators in November. Vote for the one who promises to take direct action on this issue...and then follows through with it.