Oppose Statewide Property Taxes and State Control of Zoning

While I sympathize that the state needs to generate a new source of revenue, the state property tax imposed upon home values of $300,000 or more is capricious and arbitrary for an area like Fairfield County, let alone Greenwich. I would be much more open to a moderate increase in the state sales tax where the charge would be more equitably spread among the entire population and would a potential big boost when businesses start to recover from the pandemic.

Opposing property taxes

Stop this insanity!!! We cannot afford any more taxes!!

Keep local control!

We do not need any more taxes added!

Stop the madness being created by the Hartford political elite class.

CT is currently in dire straits. Residents and employers are abandoning the state. CT must improve its livability for those who reside here as well as its attractiveness to employers. We especially need to encourage current employers to remain and new ones to move here. If we can attract job creators, the state will benefit from the taxes they pay as well those paid by people earning a decent living....a win-win situation. The proposers of the current, and other such bills are, as they so often are, extremely shortsighted. I fail to see how either of the proposed bills improves the desirability of CT as a place to live or work.

This bill basically hides its real intents, which are - (a) to have bureaucratic centralized state government mandate one-size-fits-all zoning rules ignoring local considerations and (b) to intentionally force reductions in real estate values for already existing homeowners in targeted communities near the sites of these mandated multifamily housing projects, as some kind of misguided way of making housing "more affordable." While I would enthusiastically support better thought-out and more incentive-based approaches to making community access fair for all, this bill is NOT the right way to achieve its supposed objectives through heavy-handed mandates. In fact, it is my view that such mandates may actually impede some of the positive local efforts already in progress to help ameliorate disparities in ways that are inclusive and supportive of long-term community-integration and community-building. And mandates such as those in this bill certainly will work to chase out even more high-wage earners from Connecticut, at a time when many are already considering moving their residences to places like Florida, New Hampshire or Texas. What a terrible long-term outcome for our state and our state's tax-base, if this bill became law!

Opposed!

These decisions should remain under local control

I am adamantly opposed to the state wide tax. Local municipalities should focus on balancing their respective budgets to improve rather than perpetuate their fiscal ineptitude and steal money from better managed towns and cities.

Let's incentivize people up, not down. And please...let me know where the $300,000 'mansions' are in CT...I'd like to take a look.

A $300,000 home is not a "mansion" in most of Fairfield County. If this tax is imposed even more working people will try move out of CT, thus causing the State's income and sales tax receipts to drop. Re. SB 1024, Greenwich in recent years has been under severe water restrictions; how could the fresh water needs of the residents of these new multi-family housing units be met?

If these pass, property values will plummet and people and businesses will renew the exodus from Connecticut. Those it purports to help will be hurt the worst. Their rents will increase to cover the new property tax and the loss of residents and businesses will mean tax increases for all who remain to cover the loss of revenue created by those who left.

Taxes r too high already

Taxes r too high already

I can’t afford to pay higher taxes Stamford is already expensive city to stay and live . You can’t do this to middle class. Thank You

Do all you can to kill this

Already an expensive town without the benefits that come with being an expensive town. Having this pushed to a greater extreme will do good for no one.

I oppose this change!