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Strategies & Market Trends : Income Taxes and Record Keeping ( tax ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Colin Cody who wrote (1185)	7/24/1998 5:05:00 AM
From: Shawn Donahue	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5810

Colin, Thanks! It looks like Connecticut never met a tax that it didn't like...looks like they are right up there with Taxachusetts:) So they have the infamous property tax on vehicles that Virginia finally is getting rid of...any idea what a newer 30k vehicle would cost in property taxes for Stamford? Also, is there a threshold on the high end for the 4.5% on Gross Federal Income? 4.5% is alot better than that old 13% state capital gains tax...that was worse than California's 10% state capital gains tax! I did check with a few realtors, an hour north of Stamford..and the average property taxes are $4200 - $5200...does that sound accurate to you? It looks like they have the property tax rate of New Hampshire...only New Hampshire has 0 state income taxes and 0 sales taxes! From looking on the Internet...Connecticut looks like they are getting lottery happy like Mass. with Powerball, Lotto twice a week, numbers games every night, and instant tickets...shouldn't this fund Public schools enough to lower property taxes? They must have some very, very well paid public school administrators, etc....because I found out that most towns in Connecticut still have volunteer fire departments (unpaid). Public school funding is a sore spot with me, as I took my children out after Colorado's Democratic Governor Roy Romer started going around to Public elementary schools and reading fictitious civil war books about gay soldiers...just in case any elementary boys were thinking of being gay when they grow up and Roy didn't want them to feel self conscious..also, in my daughter's high school they did everything but tell the kids to go out and get pregnant...because mom and dad will never have to know about the school getting you an abortion! So, as you can guess my children will be going to private religious schools in Connecticut! F.y.i., Roy Romer just happens to be the Clinton appointee to head the Democratic National Committee...so you can see what kind of values he represents! Any chance after I move to Connecticut of us getting rid of those two liberal Democratic senators: Dodd and Lieberman (sp)??:) Believe it or not..I used to vote the Democratic ticket back before Reagan..then I saw how more and more and more of my tax money was being wasted on social programs and Public mis-Education and I found that by voting Republican...I was voting for people with at least some morals and more importantly, business acumen for controlling spending! I also found out that Connecticut lowered their gas tax by 4 cents, bringing it down to 39 cents a gallon...added to the Federal tax bite of 18 cents a gallon = 57 cents a gallon...how are the roads and highways...looks like they should be nice with all that gas tax :) Actually, I hear that Connecticut is covered with beautiful and dense forests and plenty of lakes, not to mention that I can bring my kids to the ocean alot easier than in Colorado;) Hows crime? And can a law abiding citizen own a gun, so as to be equal with the armed criminals?:) Warm Regards, Shawn