Sentences with phrase «forcing higher local property taxes»

While Malloy and Foley can try and claim they won't raise taxes, by forcing higher local property taxes, the two major party candidates will — in fact — be raising taxes that disproportionately hit middle - income families and small business that are particularly hurt by the way in which Connecticut raises revenue at the local level.

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Unable to increase local property taxes sufficiently, the warped education strategy that has been developed by Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, will continue to mean that many communities will face higher property taxes while actually being forced to reduce their education programs so they can shift scarce resources away from student instruction and toward implementing the new Common Core tests and the absurd new teacher evaluation program.

This approach would leave more and more of Connecticut's public schools without the money needed to provide comprehensive education programs and would, in the end, threaten the quality of education in our public schools while leading to higher local property taxes as towns are forced to rely even more heavily on regressive property taxes.