As the 2013 legislative was winding down, Better Choices issued the following press release. Unfortunately, HB6566 did not get called for a vote in the Senate during the final hours of the session.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 4, 2013

CONTACT
Larry Dorman, 860-989-9127
John Humphries, 860-216-7972

REVENUE ADVOCATES:
POLICYMAKERS NOW MUST FIX REVENUE SYSTEM, APPROVE TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES

Better Choices advocates have been distributing these creative leaflets at the Capitol. Download and enjoy!

Rep. Mae Flexer (D-44) joined Better Choices and Danielson business owners to decry corporate tax loopholes that hurt small businesses and increase the tax burden on the rest of us. (3 articles linked below)

Rep Flexer and Business Owners Call for Fair Taxes (Reminder News, 4/26/13)

AP Story: Lawmakers pressured to restore cuts [download PDF below]

and
Op-Ed: Revenue increases the most sensible solution [download PDF below]
By Corey Guilmette, who is a senior at Wesleyan University and will attend law school in the fall. He has been a legislative intern for the Middlesex Coalition for Children for more than three years.

Use these resources to submit a letter to the editor of your local paper:

Hartford Courant highlights the coalition's call for additional revenue

Read the April 6 article.

Research debunks the myth that wealthy people will leave the state if we raise the top income tax rates.

The report linked below demonstrates that raising income tax rates on the wealthiest 1%-2% will bring in substantial revenue without causing significant numbers of people to leave the state. As the report shows, housing costs are a much more important factor in such migration, and as our team pointed out to the Hartford Courant's editorial board a couple weeks ago, property taxes on the New York side of the border are much higher than in CT.

Better Choices press conference highlights impact of budget cuts on children and families - calls for increased taxes on wealthy individuals and large, multi-state corporations

Read the article in CTNewsJunkie.

MEDIA ADVISORY
THURSDAY, April 4, 2013
11:00am - Rm 1B at the LOB

Contacts:
Jillian Gilchrest, Connecticut Association for Human Services - 860-951-2212 ext. 233
Jane McNichol, Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut - 860-278-5688 ext. 201

CHILDREN’S ADVOCATES SEEK “BETTER CHOICES” FOR CONNECTICUT
News conference will call for balanced approach to deficit that includes revenues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Monday, March 27, 2013

Contacts: Wade Gibson, Connecticut Voices for Children, (203) 974-2361
Liz Dupont-Diehl, Connecticut Association for Human Services, (203) 667-5956

REVENUE ADVOCATES CHALLENGE “FALSE BUDGET CHOICES”
Gov. Malloy Should Consider More Revenues – Not Cuts