Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more.
Greenwich, Connecticut real estate, politics, and more
deluded Moron I
CDC “looking into” whether masks are necessary outdoors
There’s not a scintilla of evidence that masks need be worn when outside — to the contrary, the possibility of someone contracting Kung Flu from a person passing by is exactly nil. This has been known for at least a year, and the fact that the CDC is still pretending otherwise just proves, again, that it’s all about theater, and nothing about science.
deluded moron II
who knew there were still living elm trees?
New Listing at 190 Stanwich Road, 1925 construction, obviously well maintained and renovated through the years, $2.795 million. It’s an Ellen Mosher listing, and she’s almost always spot-on on pricing; to my eye, she’s done it again.
(okay, you may want to re-wallpaper, but that’s a quibble)
welcome to connecticut
44 Summit Road, Riverside, $1.995 million, 29 days, pending. The owners tried for $1.725 without success in 2018-19 before giving up and renting it out. Second time was the charm.
Hartford Democrats are coming after you, Greenwich homeowner
Connecticut’s wealthiest would pay a new “consumption tax” aimed at raising $700 million a year, as well as a higher rate on investment income, under legislation considered Thursday to fund the two-year, $46-billion budget supported by majority Democrats in the General Assembly.
The tax hikes won approval from progressive Democrats who have wanted the wealthy to pay more for years. Republicans attacked it and Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont warned against it, stressing that the state has recently enjoyed good economic news, with a surplus in the current budget, a robust, $3.5 billion reserve fund, as well as an upgrade in its bond rating.
“No, it's not really my thing,” Lamont said in response to a reporter’s question Thursday morning. “We're starting to get some economic momentum in Connecticut, and I don't want to do anything to stop that.” He stressed that the spending and tax packages will soon be the subject of direct talks between lawmakers and his office.
The year after the biennium, the state would see a $1.9-billion deficit.
According to a summary of the legislation, the consumption tax would be based on income levels of the wealthiest. While it apparently was first aimed at incomes over $140,000, by Thursday morning the threshold seemed to increase to those whose adjusted gross incomes (AGI) of $500,000. The new tax would range from 0.7% for taxpayers with federal AGIs between $500,000 and $2 million to 1.5% for taxpayers with federal AGIs of $13 million or more.
The $1.4 billion projected to be generated over the biennium would not be subject to the state’s so-called volatility cap because about $200 million would be siphoned into an equity investment fund to nearly double the amounts for lower-income residents who participate in the Earned Income Tax Credit program. Those in the program would be able to get additional income credits totaling $154 million over the biennium, according to the draft legislation.
The bill seemed have caused conflict within the Democratic-dominated committee, which was scheduled to consider the measures on Wednesday, but the meeting was abruptly postponed at around 8 p.m.
Much of Greenwich has turned blue, and those people will be happy to stay in the pen and be fleeced, and God bless them, they deserve it, good and hard. If you’re not of that persuasion, however, you’d be well advised to sell and get out now. And for new buyers, if you’re looking for a new state to move to, don’t even consider buying here. If you’ve been smart enough to amass enough wealth to purchase a million-dollar + house, now is not the time to turn stupid.
The state’s lust for money is insatiable, and Greenwich, which already pays 17% of the budget (together with Darien and New Canaan, it’s 35%) is the natural target. Hartford thinks you have nowhere else to go; prove them wrong.
Colorado Counties Pushing Back Against Biden’s Confiscation plan
PUSH BACK HARDER: Colorado counties pushing back against Biden’s extreme plan to lock up 30% of U.S. land. “To conserve 30% of the land alone (not including the same amount of U.S. territorial waters) would require the rewilding of an area twice the size of Texas, according to proponents.”
“Rewilding” is the opposite of “civilizing,” and is pretty much the Left’s goal for everything.
Of course, it’s not just Colorado these communists are after, they want everything.
Biden plan mimics global agenda
Biden’s plan mimics a global initiative called the “Global Deal for Nature” (GDN), characterized as a “companion pact to the Paris Agreement.”
The advocates for GDN call for “rewilding” of private property to create migration corridors free of humans and their infrastructure, with the global 30 by 30 plan being only the immediate goal. Advocates don’t want to stop at 30%, they want 50% to 75% of all of the land and sea on earth to be “conserved.”
Although advocates are vague about it, by “conserved” they appear to mean prohibitions on all extractive activities including commercial fishing, timber harvesting, mining, oil & gas drilling, road building, urbanization, rural development and even human access.
War was declared against our country on January 20. So far, it’s been unilateral, but it’s not too late, I hope, to start firing back; we can’t afford to wait until 2022.
33 Broad Road, in Belle Haven, but not of it, has sold for $4.375 million after starting off in February 2019 at $5.5.
But wait, there’s more!
“Jennifer Yang is a reporter for the Toronto Star who describes her job as ‘covering #coronavirus and #covid19 for the foreseeable future’.
Insanity Wrap discovered her this morning, and she’s a twofer of crazy.
A scroll through her (now-protected) Twitter feed shows that Yang might be the archetypal example of what’s wrong with our “news” media. Yang also serves as one more data point proving that progressive women ought to be presumed mentally ill until shown otherwise.
For your shock and/or bemusement, Insanity Wrap has transcribed the Twitter thread that got everyone talking — and Yang to lock down her feed.
Brace yourself, gentle reader, and rest uneasy knowing we didn’t make any of this up: “
We’ll never know how she got infected. But I know her daycare friends & staff are the only people she interacts with outside of our household. We never bring her into stores, rarely to playgrounds. And so far, my husband and I have both tested negative.
What’s life like right now? We’re double-masking 24/7 in the house with a KN95 and surgical mask. The windows are open all day to improve ventilation, which means wearing toques and multiple sweaters indoors (today’s snowfall isn’t helping).
We eat our meals separately, sleep in different rooms, disinfect constantly, and hand wash to the point where our skin is cracked and bleeding. I spent a day clearing our unfinished basement of junk, boxes, and dead millipedes, just in case one of us needs to move down there.
“There’s more along those lines — much more — at this link.”
Annie, get your gun
Dallas wants to put illegal aliens on city commissions and let them redraw voting districts
Battleswarm:
Before the Texas Legislature receives its census data and starts redrawing state voting maps, Dallas City Council is asking local citizens to eliminate the requirement of being a taxpayer or a registered voter to be on city boards and commissions—including the one that will redraw city council districts.
On February 10, by a vote of 10-5, the Dallas City Council decided to put two proposed amendments to the city charter on the May 1 ballot.
Proposition A, if approved by voters, would eliminate the requirement that members of city boards or commissions, created by the city charter, be “registered or qualified to vote.” Doing so would allow city council members to nominate noncitizens to these positions.
In response to a question from Councilmember Cara Mendelsohn, Liz Cedillo-Pereira, Dallas’ chief of equity and inclusion, said 25 percent of the city’s population are immigrants, and to her knowledge, “approximately 70 percent or so” of those immigrants are noncitizens.
According to City Attorney Chris Caso, Proposition A would affect the city planning commission, the civil service board, the park board, and the redistricting commission (which is charged with redrawing the city’s voting precincts).
“Just letting illegal aliens into the country in hopes of harvesting their illegal votes is evidently no longer enough for the victimhood identity politics left. Now we have to start giving the left wing activists among them sinecures from which to wage social justice against actual citizens.”
188 Bible Street, Cos Cob. Asked $1.295 million, got $1.364.
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