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With some state employee pensions exceeding $150,000 to over $200,000 and salaries/benefits exceeding $350,000, as noted below, who at the State is protecting Taxpayers!��

Breaking:� Lembo Certifies Higher Deficit Than Malloy Budget Office

It�s worse than initially thought. The state is running a deficit of at least $415 million, according to state Comptroller Kevin Lembo.

EDITORIAL: Malloy has yet to put Connecticut's fiscal house in order ... �

New Haven Register: The labor concessions that the governor won from government workers� labor unions have fallen short of their expected savings. The state also still is handing out some $40 million a year in longevity bonuses to state employees as a reward for simply staying in their jobs.�

Taxpayers:� You may be unemployed, underemployed, living on social security or broke but you will continue to pay some exorbitant salaries and pensions as well as� a 9% wage increase for State employee unions which are also guaranteed job security while State budget deficits are in the millions and billions for fiscal years 2013 through 2016 as noted below.�� If deficits are being driven by Medicaid funding, why has the State excluded an Asset Test as noted within� In Brief: Connecticut's new Medicaid for Low-Income Adults - CT.gov.�

December 4, 2012�

From: The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone: 860-841-8032

The Best Kept Secret Prior to the Nov. 2012 Election � State Debt and Deficits!�

According to the State of� Connecticut�s recently released

[PDF]�� Fiscal Accountability Report - Connecticut General Assembly - C

Million and Billion Dollar State Budget Deficits are on the Horizon for Fiscal Years 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016!

	State Budget Outlook (in millions)
	FY 13 $	FY 14 $	FY 15 $	FY 16 $
Estimated Expenditures	19,335.8	20,861.7	22,048.7	23,070.7
Estimated Revenue	19,015.1	19,723.6	21,032.3	22,136.6
Surplus/(Deficit)	($320.7)	($1,138.1)	($1,016.4)	($934.1)
% of Estimated Expenditures	-1.7%	-5.5%	-4.6%	-4.0%

We recommend you read the aforementioned report in its entirety at http://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa/Documents/year/FF/2013FF-20121115_Fiscal%20Accountability%20Report%20FY%2013%20-%20FY%2016.pdf

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Connecticut Also Ranked Number 1 in the Country in Net Tax Supported Debt Per Capita at $5,096

Debt Service is Listed at $95.7 Million for Fiscal Year 2014; $145.3 Million for Fiscal Year 2015; and $133.7 Million for Fiscal Year 2016.

Debt Service is defined as:� Contractual commitment to pay the principal and interest on existing and projected future debt obligation.�

Read More on Page 7 and 8 of the Report

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Understanding that Taxes are simply a transfer of money from your pocket to someone else�s pocket, check out the following�.

State focuses on bankrolling businesses .

In Calendar Year 2011, the State paid out $1,354,965,272 in pensions to 45,530 recipients according to the Connecticut Transparency Website.� The following is a sampling of the top pensions paid. To learn more, go to Pensions.

Exanple of State Pensions Paid in Calendar Yr 2011

Veiga, John	$269,624
Blechner, Jack	$262,364
Mattei, Edward	$259,967
Henken, Eleanor	$232,727
Blanchette, Edward	$221,130
Hartley, Harry	$206,490
Judd, Richard	$203,254
Sigman, Eugene	$198,400
Dibenedetto, Anthony	$197,664
Raye, John	$195,705
Cutler, Leslie	$193,481
Menichetti, Lynne	$184,838
Anderson, Gregory	$181,248
Surapaneni, Bujji	$179,957
Renzulli, Joseph	$177,571
Kochanek, Richard	$167,347
Goyal, Rama	$166,008
Chouhan,md, Ganpat	$163,418
Johnston, Kevin	$162,810
Stabenau, James	$162,675
Macgill, Hugh	$161,277
Panoor, Leela	$160,179
Brown, Richard	$156,170
Detora, Bruce	$154,442
Belke-morrill, Barbara	$151,189

To learn more, go to Pensions.

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Click the following for more information on Employee Compensation, click Advanced Search, and Search by name or salary range

Top State Salaries Paid in Fiscal Year 2011
In Fiscal Year 2011, the State Paid $5,746,745,256 in Salary and Benefits to Include the Following
Agency Description/Title	Employee Name	Salary and Wages	Fringe Benefits	Total
University of Connecticut	Calhoun,James A	2,310,882	92,341	2,403,224
University of Connecticut	Auriemma,Geno	1,692,715	50,394	1,743,109
UConn Health Center	Nulsen,John C.	1,000,205	270,553	1,270,758
UConn Health Center	Laurencin,Cato T.	933,311	66,513	999,824
University of Connecticut	Edsall,Randy D	914,906	46,842	961,748
UConn Health Center	Whalen,James D.	840,846	83,439	924,285
UConn Health Center	Makkar,Hanspaul	815,481	54,451	869,932
UConn Health Center	Onyiuke,Hilary	792,727	64,283	857,010
University of Connecticut	Pasqualoni,Paul L	712,945	32,889	745,835
University of Connecticut	Hathaway,Jeffrey	567,122	57,795	624,917
UConn Health Center	Aronow,Michael S.	560,289	64,614	624,903
UConn Health Center	Fellows,Douglas W.	538,148	79,009	617,157
UConn Health Center	Lieberman,Jay R.	538,201	58,825	597,026
Connecticut State Universities	Carter Sr,David George	520,769	60,245	581,014
UConn Health Center	Mazzocca,Augustus D.	486,249	66,275	552,524
UConn Health Center	Shea,Kevin P.	492,697	56,959	549,656
UConn Health Center	Grant-Kels,Jane M.	493,731	48,317	542,048
UConn Health Center	Browner,Bruce D.	460,471	69,918	530,389
UConn Health Center	Rodner,Craig M.	459,635	60,989	520,624
UConn Health Center	Chandawarkar,Rajiv Y.	456,738	60,189	516,928
University of Connecticut	Earley,Paul C	468,499	45,018	513,516
Connecticut State Universities	Norton,Cheryl J	446,027	64,525	510,551
Connecticut Community Colleges	Herzog,Marc S	441,508	64,923	506,431
UConn Health Center	Albertsen,Peter C.	431,492	63,633	495,124
UConn Health Center	Summerer,Mike H.	415,154	64,416	479,570
UConn Health Center	Brewer,Molly A.	419,474	58,324	477,798
UConn Health Center	DeBerardino,Thomas M.	411,737	55,271	467,008
UConn Health Center	Arciero,Robert A.	408,257	55,076	463,333
UConn Health Center	Senatus,Patrick B.	405,269	52,171	457,440
UConn Health Center	Menzoian,James O.	391,434	59,936	451,369
UConn Health Center	Gross,Jeffrey B.	385,988	62,852	448,840
UConn Health Center	Berke,Adrienne	383,198	61,392	444,590
University of Connecticut	Austin,Philip E	382,638	55,041	437,679
UConn Health Center	Campbell,Winston A.	379,941	56,890	436,832
UConn Health Center	Simon,Richard	384,442	48,722	433,163
UConn Health Center	Dahn,Michael S.	384,271	48,588	432,859
UConn Health Center	Kerr,Philip E.	377,890	54,695	432,585
UConn Health Center	Kristjansson,Arni K.	373,278	56,353	429,630
UConn Health Center	Murphy,Michael J.	381,933	43,132	425,064
UConn Health Center	Bolnick,Jay M.	375,380	48,103	423,483
UConn Health Center	Lafreniere,Denis	361,805	59,433	421,238
UConn Health Center	Schielke,Lorenz H.	375,616	43,912	419,527
UConn Health Center	Liang,Bruce T.	350,344	59,428	409,772
University of Connecticut	Choi,Mun	354,962	53,515	408,477
UConn Health Center	Egan,James	359,523	48,392	407,914
University of Connecticut	Hussein,Mohamed E	341,424	63,991	405,415
Department of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Ghani,Mohammed S.	342,386	58,936	401,322
UConn Health Center	Birk,John W.	345,962	54,123	400,085
University of Connecticut	Nicholls,Peter J	348,084	51,846	399,931
Department of Children and Families	Kale,Milind V.	341,431	56,888	398,319
UConn Health Center	Runowicz,Carolyn D.	351,624	41,252	392,876
Connecticut State Universities	Battle,Stanley F.	326,562	63,656	390,218
UConn Health Center	Nanda,Ravindra	322,308	62,058	384,366
Department of Children and Families	Allen Jr,Henry A	322,410	61,779	384,189
UConn Health Center	Azrin,Michael A.	313,644	65,365	379,009
Office of the State Treasurer	Corbett,M. Timothy	319,933	56,478	376,412
Department of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Chacko,Elsamma	314,921	60,913	375,834
UConn Health Center	Brenner,Bruce M.	317,657	56,264	373,920
UConn Health Center	Kaloudis,Electra V.	310,061	63,709	373,770
UConn Health Center	Moskowitz,Harold	328,958	44,545	373,503
UConn Health Center	Sanders,Mary M.	308,559	64,773	373,332
Connecticut State Universities	Miller,John W.	320,481	51,983	372,464
Connecticut State Universities	Kedderis,Pamela J.	321,178	50,745	371,923
Department of Children and Families	Pitegoff,John G.	311,183	60,632	371,815
UConn Health Center	Taylor III,John A.	317,128	53,752	370,879
UConn Health Center	Wolfson,Leslie I.	325,458	44,770	370,229
UConn Health Center	Kane,Mark J.	324,248	45,227	369,475
UConn Health Center	Townsend,Michelle	315,077	54,268	369,345
UConn Health Center	Palmisano,Joseph	307,295	60,475	367,770
UConn Health Center	Biancamano,John M.	316,323	51,344	367,666
Connecticut State Universities	Nunez,Elsa M.	320,481	46,342	366,823
University of Connecticut	Schwab,Richard L	311,446	55,237	366,684
Connecticut State Universities	Schmotter,James W.	320,481	45,820	366,301
University of Connecticut	Faghri,Amir	312,871	52,380	365,251
Department of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Boateng,Freda	317,947	44,866	362,813
epartment of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Watson,Ronald L	312,501	48,017	360,518
Department of Developmental Services	Siva,Subramaniam	303,303	55,801	359,104
UConn Health Center	Hesselbrock,Victor	319,392	39,445	358,837
Department of Children and Families	Aujla,Akashdeep	302,839	54,866	357,704
Department of Correction	Ducate,Suzanne E	306,269	51,417	357,686
UConn Health Center	Rothe,Marti	298,999	56,966	355,965
UConn Health Center	Singh,Kanwar P.	301,481	53,554	355,035
Department of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Cotterell,Mark S.	296,949	57,666	354,615
Department of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Tress,Michael	301,980	52,432	354,413
Department of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Zepf,Robert A.	308,710	45,026	353,737
University of Connecticut	Dino,Richard N	293,411	58,120	351,532
UConn Health Center	Huey,Leighton Y.	304,163	46,687	350,850
UConn Health Center	Yang,Clifford K.	297,233	53,252	350,484
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner	Carver,H Wayne	299,783	49,205	348,988
UConn Health Center	Lawlor,Thomas E.	286,949	60,884	347,832
UConn Health Center	Mohr,Robert A.	310,074	36,753	346,827
Department of Mental Heath and Addiction Services	Buddhu,Tharunemattie	295,480	51,176	346,656
University of Connecticut	Singha,Suman	297,278	49,224	346,503
Department of Children and Families	Mohiuddin,Zahur	291,470	54,001	345,471
UConn Health Center	Macneil,R. Lamont	291,650	53,777	345,427
University of Connecticut	Walker,Kenneth M	306,802	37,581	344,383
Department of Developmental Services	Patel,Padmavati A.	289,327	53,542	342,869
UConn Health Center	Lalande,Marc E.	283,316	58,633	341,949
University of Connecticut	Gray,Richard	290,235	51,146	341,382
UConn Health Center	Gjertson,Carl K.	296,539	44,486	341,025

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From the Federation: Whether it is the direct taxes you pay, long term debt incurred through excessive government bonding, government waste, fraud and corruption, or quid-pro-quo politics, Governments on all levels - Local, State and Federal � are fueled by your Tax Dollars.�

When politicians go on a spending spree and need more, it�s you they come after.� And at the State, Federal and Local levels of government they need a lot more.� A whole lot more because their addiction is so strong to other people�s money � your money � they have maxed out the governments� credit cards!��

The Federation suggests that Governor Malloy must get his house in order and not expect more from the Taxpayers of Connecticut through either an increase in State taxes or a reduction in municipal aid which will in turn drive up local property taxes for homeowners and businesses.� The Governor must begin by calling upon the Democrat controlled State legislature to reform Collective Bargaining/Binding Arbitration laws and other state mandates.� Public sector unions should not be allowed to exert control over our state/municipal budgets or manpower.� That control should instead rest with those whom we elect to municipal and state offices.��

Connecticut Taxpayers are Already Taxed to the Max as the Summary of State Revenues by Fund, Tax Type and Account for Fiscal Years 2007 through 2012 illustrates as prepared by Robert Young, Secretary,� of the Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations.��

We recently learned that Connecticut Ranks Last Among 50 States In Credit Quality Analysis ...

State taxpayers may be broke but they are paying 415 state retiree pensions of over $100,000 a year with the highest at $269,623 (see below).� Our State�s budget is in the tank as Malloy's budget chief confirms $365M state deficit this year and a� Projected deficit for next fiscal year tops $1.1 billion.�� Enlightening news which surfaced after the November 6, 2012 election and after a $1.5 billion state tax hike, a gift of a 9% wage increase under a no layoff clause for State employee unions, and millions of dollars in subsidies for corporations based on speculative job creation as the State focuses on bankrolling businesses .

Other spending habits by our State officials include Cost of free tuition for UConn employees on the rise, approaches $5 million� as recently reported by Zachary Janowski who noted� �Employees of the University of Connecticut receive free tuition at the college for themselves, their spouses and children, an in-kind benefit worth $4.7 million in 2011�, while� 30,000 Connecticut State Employees Receiving $18 Million In ...Longevity Bonuses just for staying on the job.� Bet some private sector workers would give their employers a bonus to guarantee their own longevity on the job!�

Connecticut State Police Supervisors Get Big Pay Raises - News ... A 56% Wage Increase while TAXPAYERS PAID OVER 5.7 BILLION DLRS FOR STATE OF CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE COSTS IN 2012 .

And less than two weeks ago, we learned that UConn Hires Communications VP At $227,500 - Hartford Courant while Chief Justice: CT Judges Need $45,000 Raise - Brookfield, CT Patch.� The Federation in researching� the State�s Transparency Website learned that as State Judges seek a wage hike, the State Judicial Department Employs 5,163 employees for a total of $421,722,635 with many salaries and benefits exceeding $200,000 and as high as $237,320.�

And oh yes, the on-again, off-again romance with the Board of Regents culminated in�� College presidents' pay hikes reinstated by Board of Regents | The ... resulting in $48,000 pay increases.

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In An Era of Fiscal Crisis, Malloy Has Few Places To Run