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Why do Progressives / Socialists love Regionalization ....... CONTROL!

Why are we talking about Regionalization?  Because no one else is.  What set me off on this topic [again] was today's Editorial in the Hartford Courant entitled in print Roads Need Revenue and in the online version entitled Stop Pilfering Funds For Roads, Bridges [I find comparing the titles of print and online versions of the same editorial instructive, can't have a call for new and increased taxes easily searchable on line now can we and today's younger people almost never read an actual news papers]. 

A quick digression.  This is one of the reasons I started blogging, the incessant drumbeat attempting to move our state aways from the founding principles of individual liberty and responsibility and toward a Collective economy [name your flavor], one party rule, collective salvation, redistributive social justice, and total control of the Citizenry by properly educated self appointed elites who weren't satisfied making ridiculous rules in their HOA, so they run for office and believe that we "have to do SOMETHING to fix every social problem.  OK Paul back on track!

About halfway down the editorial the Courant states "A somewhat similar situation obtains with the idea of eliminating the local property tax on automobiles over seven years, passed as part of a package of otherwise good bills promoting regionalism." WHY ARE WE PROMOTING REGIONALISM?  So the Hartford Region can take over schools and their funding in Farmington, Avon and Simsbury and screw them up as badly as they have done in Hartford proper?  So that local citizens' voices of restraint and moderation [slight though they are at times] can be further diluted.  Or simply to make it easier to CONTROL every aspect of a messy traditionally independent municipal governance structures which place responsibility and control AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE SOVEREIGN CITIZEN?

Read the Municipal Opportunities & Regional Efficiencies (M.O.R.E) Commission reports.  They are frightening and are if not evocative directly inspired by Agenda 21 [oh if you say Agenda 21 you must be a tinfoil hatted conspiracy theorist. Such a position might be reasonable if you had actually read the United Nations Agenda 21 documents but that is not necessary to implement Saul Alinsky's Rule for Radicals and engage in ad hominem attacks using the sound bite language of ridicule and personal destruction].  Under the guise of efficiency, MORE is the state attempting to gain control over areas that are traditionally the purview of local government.

• MORE requires every region to adopt a Council of Governments (COG), even though this may not always be the optimal structure. 

• MORE mandates consolidation that increases the number of towns and cities in each region. 

• MORE destabilization of local budgets and tax structures. 

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• MORE causes the loss of flexibility and increased bureaucracy for municipalities. 

• MORE creates more unfunded mandates. 

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• MORE allows for the potential for regional taxation. 

But fear not, Governor Mao Loy, most of the other constitutional officers, most of the CGA, the CT Congressional delegation, and The Hartford Courant are all in favor of Regionalization.  If you are not you must be a hater; especially, when it comes to people who live in CT's failing cities, after all isn't that why you live in the suburbs?

Back to the editorial, the Courant got it right [sort'a] in their call for the CGA to stop stealing [oops should have said re-allocating] the proceeds from the gas tax to the general fund [and I would add to public transportation].  But they got it totally wrong calling for an additional "car" tax.  At least it wasn't a Regional Car Tax.  If municipalities want to enter into voluntary cooperative agreements to share services or overhead all well and good but he sovereignty of the local municipality should not be infringed by Collectivist in the CGA.

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