From:  Susan Kniep,  President
The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations, Inc. (FCTO)
Website:  http://ctact.org/
email:  fctopresident@aol.com
860-524-6501
May 31, 2007

 

 

THERE IS STILL TIME TO

 

 

DEFEAT BILL 6956!

 

 

 

 

PLEASE, PLEASE ACT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

OR PAY MORE TAXES!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Please send the following to your email lists!

 

 

 

 

STOP HOUSE BILL 6956 Raised Bill [pdf] WHICH WILL COST

 

 

LOCAL AND STATE TAXPAYERS  MILLIONS AND

 

 

MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

 

$$$ ACT NOW $$$

 

 

 

 

 

STOP THIS COSTLY STATE MANDATE

 

 

 

Here is what you need to do:

 

·         Send this Email to everyone you know in Connecticut! Tell them Bill 6956 expands the State’s Heart and Hypertension Mandate, and  will cost local and state taxpayers millions and millions of tax dollars!   Tell them to contact their State Reps today to kill this bill. 

 

·         Read the CCM Announcement below!

 

·         Contact your STATE REPRESENTATIVES and tell them NO to House Bill 6956 or any facsimile thereof – Find your State Rep below!

 

·         Contact your LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS and tell them to get involved in this issue.  Tell them they must contact their State Reps and tell them to KILL BILL 6956 or any facsimile thereof which will drive up local budgets! 

 

 

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READ WHAT WAS JUST RELEASED FROM CCM

 

CCM, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities http://www.ccm-ct.org/

 

 

Tell Your Legislators to Vote NO on HB 6956 because...

• Amendments to this mandate which focus solely on heart disease, and create a fictitious “liability account” with arbitrary amounts of funding are misleading—there are no funds in the state budget that will pay for the costs of (i) these unprecedented benefits, and (ii) the damage of fundamentally turning Connecticut’s workers’ compensation system upside down.

• The proposed “liability account” is a scheme and not iron-clad—as it only proposes to cover a fraction of the costs for only the first year—with zero funding for subsequent years. Your town’s residential and business property taxpayers will be left with the price tag, being forced to pay for the increased amount of cancer, heart and infectious disease claims for this select group of people–indefinitely!

• It’s not necessary — currently, if there is a correlation between the job and a particular illness, public safety officers alreadyreceive workers’ compensation benefits.

• Proponents of the nation-wide campaign to grant these benefits are flexing political muscle and have not produced any credible medical justification for these special entitlements.

 

Remain Vigilant: Session ends June 6th. Keep the pressure on in the final week—Contact your state legislators again, NOW!

 

Tell them:

(1) To OPPOSE HB 6956 in whatever disguise it appears,

(2) That it would negate much of the property tax relief initiatives proposed this session—relief that would go toward paying for local public safety, education and road repairs,

(3) That HB 6956 is BAD PUBLIC POLICY, and that (4) First responders are already eligible to receive the benefits for the illnesses listed in HB 6956.

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If you have any questions, please contact Bob Labanara or Ron Thomas of CCM at 203-498-3000.

 

 

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Contact Your State Representatives TODAY and Tell them 

 

 

VOTE NO on HOUSE BILL 6956 or facsimile thereof!

 

 

To Find Your Legislator, Click on the Following

 

http://www.cga.ct.gov/maps/townlist.asp