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Keeping Track
Which bills move Connecticut up? Which ones don’t? As this issue of CBIA News goes to press, the state legislature is considering numerous proposals that would help Connecticut move up into the top 20...
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Top 20 or Bottom Five?
State legislators have a big say in Where Connecticut ends up With a month to go in the 2015 legislative session, state lawmakers have a lot of decisions to make—some that will have a significant...
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Business Climate and Budget
Gov. Malloy, Brennan, Griebel discuss the issues By Bill DeRosa L-R: Gov. Dannel Malloy, CBIA President and CEO Joe Brennan, and MetroHartford Alliance President and CEO Oz Griebel. (Photo: Brian...
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We Can Do Better
Lawmakers considering dangerous combination of unsustainable spending increases, major tax hikes At the time of this writing, just a few weeks before the end of the 2015 General Assembly session,...
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DRS Commissioner Keynotes CBIA Tax Conference
Says Connecticut needs a more relevant tax system By Lesia Winiarskyj DRS Commissioner Kevin Sullivan addresses business leaders at the CBIA 2015 Connecticut Tax Conference on June 26. Connecticut’s...
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Business Spoke, Lawmakers Listened
CBIA spearheads successful move to reopen budget, scale back tax increases—but $1.3 billion in anticompetitive tax hikes remains By Bill DeRosa Although the drama and media attention surrounding the...
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The Connecticut Economy
By Lesia Winiarskyj Boehringer Ingelheim’s James Baxter delivers the keynote address at CBIA’s fall economic conference. (Photo: Alan Grant/Digital Creations) How did the second-largest tax hike in...
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From the President
Credible, Not Negative CBIA’s main mission is to create a globally competitive business climate in Connecticut. Yet many people who oppose our objectives simply write us off as engaging in a kind of...
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After the Budget Battle: Here’s What’s Happening–and What Needs to Happen Next
By Bill DeRosa About three months have passed since the end of a bruising state budget battle that attracted national media attention. Most of that attention derided the legislature for proposing yet...
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From the President
Smarter Policy Choices Needed In late July, I attended the annual meeting of the Conference of State Manufacturing Associations, a group of organizations like CBIA that represent manufacturers. The...
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