Rep. Themis Klarides Supports Job Creation Legislation
Republicans in the General Assembly during a debate on establishing a new budgetary commission, proposed an add-on amendment to immediately stimulate Connecticut’s long-suffering job market by repealing the business entity tax, creating a small business revolving loan fund, providing a job creation tax credit for hiring off the unemployment [...]
HARTFORD — Rep. Themis Klarides today joined Republican lawmakers in rejecting plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. Klarides and her House and Senate Republican colleagues called for immediate action from super-majority Democrats whose budget was unbalanced as soon they [...]
WOODBRIDGE — There’s a reason why young people leave the state. That was one of the subjects here tonight as Rep. Themis Klarides talked to residents about Connecticut’s budget and economy. This state is just too expensive for too many students entering the workforce, said Klarides, talking about taxes, home prices and the legislative policies [...]
ORANGE — State Representative Themis Klarides and Orange First Selectman James Zeoli led a contingent of Orange municipal officials and representatives from the Orange Chamber of Commerce in welcoming Dr. Sanjay Aggarwal’s staff from the Urgent Care Center at their Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony held today.
In her remarks, Klarides touched upon the difficult economic [...]
HARTFORD — Rep. Themis Klarides tonight voted against a huge tax-hike budget that held virtually no spending cuts while demonstrating the legislature’s majority party is unwilling to compromise to settle the state’s multi-billion dollar budget crisis. Klarides, who represents Woodbridge, Orange and Derby said the plan from Democrat leaders put a sales tax cut — [...]
WALLINGFORD — One by one, a half-dozen or so employers sitting around a table here today looked toward a bank of television news cameras and delivered a sobering message that liberal legislators in Hartford just don’t seem to get: More taxes on businesses will bring more job losses. For Republican legislators here, it was yet [...]
WOODBRIDGE — Conducting business in the state of Connecticut is difficult, and one executive here has a message for lawmakers: don’t make it any harder. Rep. Themis Klarides today toured Air Handling Systems, founded and owned by the Scott family. Check out the video above to learn a little more why massive tax increases proposed [...]
HARTFORD — The legislature’s majority party today rolled out its latest spending plan, a proposal that would increase taxes by more than $1.8 billion. Rep. Themis Klarides, who represents Woodbridge, Orange and Derby, told fellow lawmakers about the negative impact tax increases have on businesses and, more important, job growth.
HARTFORD—Rep. Themis Klarides voted against tax increases Friday passed through the state legislature by lawmakers who failed in their promise to reinvent government. Connecticut faces a two-year budget shortfall upward of $9 million, but instead of changing the way government spends taxpayer money the legislature’s majority punished businesses and residents by raising $2.25 billion in [...]
HARTFORD—A balanced, no-tax-increase budget offered by Rep. Themis Klarides and her House Republican colleagues on the final day of the 2009 legislative session was rejected by the legislature’s majority party through an inane parliamentary procedure.
The House Republican budget would restore some deep proposed cuts, and preserve all local aid—without increasing taxes on already cash-strapped [...]
