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UCONN should have 30,000+ season tickets when all is said and done. Not sure how that won't happen considering this is the best schedule even at The Rent
 
uconnbill said:
So why are businesses leaving? Riddle me that
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Because states like Texas are offering ridiculous tax credits- and much, much, much worse qualities of life.
 
zls44 said:
Makin' cash, bein' smart, not dying.

I'll lead those metrics any day of the week. Just gotta add dominant football, then we're set!
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Called the QLI (Quality of Life Index) of which Ct is ranked high. Plus any very high population density, diverse state such as ours is going to have problems that need to be addressed or at least attempted to control simply because of having people live so close together. Just easier here to have people step on each other's toes.
 
uconnbill said:
UCONN should have 30,000+ season tickets when all is said and done. Not sure how that won't happen considering this is the best schedule even at The Rent
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That would put us in company with Miami.

UM is not releasing full sales numbers and, as a private institution, is not required to do so.

But Miami officials are confident they'll sell 30,000 season tickets this season. Packages start at $98
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zls44 said:
Plus CT has the second-highest average income per capita, one of the best public education systems in the country and is one of the most literate and healthy states in the country.

But don't let the facts get in the way of a good illogical taxation rant.



You. Get. What. You. Pay. For.
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The funny thing is every time anyone young from Connecticut moves south, those of us here just sort of nod and say yep that makes sense. It's like watching natural selection in real time.
 
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uconnbill said:
We also have the some of the highest taxes and cost of living which drives people and businesses away
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And the highest quality of life. Give/take.

People, like businesses, often pay more to get more.

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zls44 said:
Plus CT has the second-highest average income per capita, one of the best public education systems in the country and is one of the most literate and healthy states in the country.

But don't let the facts get in the way of a good illogical taxation rant.



You. Get. What. You. Pay. For.
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Just look at this and I will end this part of the discussion on this topic
 
whaler11 said:
The funny thing is every time anyone young from Connecticut moves south, those of us here just sort of nod and say yep that makes sense. It's like watching natural selection in real time.
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Yes, natural selection. Youve been put out to pasture. Hope your kids avoid a deep country slang!

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Exit 4 said:
Yes, we are still number one for income per capita and top five for education and health. cheers to that. There are also plenty of metrics that paint a rather bleak picture. Population growth is very low, out migration (established households moving to other states) is high. thankfully we have moderate foreign in migration to keep our population increasing by a tiny bit.
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Didn't I just read that only Fairfield County has experienced recent population growth?
 
bmayuc said:
Yes, natural selection. Youve been put out to pasture. Hope your kids avoid a deep country slang!

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Is it awkward to point out I live in Connecticut and we laugh about the people moving?
 
UConn just posted that there are less then 200 Top of the Rent season tickets left. Do we usually sell these out?
 
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I just got the single game ticket offer from the school. You can't buy the Michigan game so that is obviously sold out. Showing "low" availability for most sections in the MD game also.

Even for Towson there are only 3 sections (234/235/236) with "high" availability. I have to think we are over 30K season tickets.

(or said a better way - I have to think we are averaging way over 30K sold/game when you include the mini-plans etc)
 
J187Money said:
I just got the single game ticket offer from the school. You can't buy the Michigan game so that is obviously sold out. Showing "low" availability for most sections in the MD game also.

Even for Towson there are only 3 sections (234/235/236) with "high" availability. I have to think we are over 30K season tickets.

(or said a better way - I have to think we are averaging way over 30K sold/game when you include the mini-plans etc)
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That is pretty incredible, especially for Towson. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't 234/235/236 typically visitors seats so presumably we recently got those back rom Towson?
 
FAIRTIDES said:
Didn't I just read that only Fairfield County has experienced recent population growth?
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yes, its growing a bit - while the rest of the state is basically flat or shrinking. growth in FF county accounts for nearly all of the state's growth since 2010. of course, that's just 3 years, so its a small sample. FF county's growth is at or below the national average however. Its well short of TX, any state in the mtn west or many state's in the south. FF County's growth has everything to do with the health and continued growth of NYC.
 
J187Money said:
I just got the single game ticket offer from the school. You can't buy the Michigan game so that is obviously sold out. Showing "low" availability for most sections in the MD game also.
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While that's great for the MD game I bet there will be a decent nimber of tix on stubhub from all the UM fans who bought season tix. Hopefully fans will snatch up those tix since their gonna be cheap!

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UCFBfan said:
While that's great for the MD game I bet there will be a decent nimber of tix on stubhub from all the UM fans who bought season tix. Hopefully fans will snatch up those tix since their gonna be cheap!

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True, but my first wish is that all games are sold out (don't care to who (or whom?)). Then I can worry about the gate.
 
Exit 4 said:
yes, its growing a bit - while the rest of the state is basically flat or shrinking. growth in FF county accounts for nearly all of the state's growth since 2010. of course, that's just 3 years, so its a small sample. FF county's growth is at or below the national average however. Its well short of TX, any state in the mtn west or many state's in the south. FF County's growth has everything to do with the health and continued growth of NYC.
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If even half of this article from Forbes is true, the future trend for CT is not positive. Last one in CT please turn the lights off http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowe...o-one-of-americas-worst-performing-economies/
 
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If you click into the sections. Low is an odd way to describe.
 
Every single person that reads this website that thinks that socialism is a socioeconomic approach that works, should read that article.

It can change, it requires voters to make good decisions, and this will raise feathers. It requires voters to make decisions on who they vote for, based on making CT a place where business owners want to stay, not leave.

I didn't read the full article, but I can tell you that Connecticut is a very desireable place, for people to move - from a certain perspective. People with families out of country, or out of state, that are looking for state funded aid (free money) are flocking to Connecticut in droves, and we've continually elected people from the bleeding heart side of things, that continue to want to take from the rich and give to the poor, and make state government bigger and responsible for everything, rather than creating jobs and holding people responsible for themselves and their communities.

It doesn't work.
 
Carl Spackler said:
Every single person that reads this website that thinks that socialism is a socioeconomic approach that works, should read that article.

It can change, it requires voters to make good decisions, and this will raise feathers. It requires voters to make decisions on who they vote for, based on making CT a place where business owners want to stay, not leave.

I didn't read the full article, but I can tell you that Connecticut is a very desireable place, for people to move - from a certain perspective. People with families out of country, or out of state, that are looking for state funded aid (free money) are flocking to Connecticut in droves, and we've continually elected people from the bleeding heart side of things, that continue to want to take from the rich and give to the poor, and make state government bigger and responsible for everything, rather than creating jobs and holding people responsible for themselves and their communities.

It doesn't work.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE move this whole discussion to the Cesspool.
 
whaler11 said:
If you click into the sections. Low is an odd way to describe.
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I hadn't done that. It is a little odd. Also seems strange that there seem to be full rows, then empty rows, then full rows again. For the chairbacks I know that the pricing is different depending on row but I wouldn't expect that in the bench seating. For example, I thought all of 241 was "preferred"...no? So wouldn't all of the open seats be at the top?

When you go through and add up the numbers of green dots (and I'm just wildly estimating for the MD game) it looks like that there are 2-3K seats unsold?
 
Carl Spackler said:
we've continually elected people from the bleeding heart side of things
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Does that include John Rowland and Jodi Rell? They were in charge for 16 years and never addressed structural change to improve the situation. In fact, they spent and spent on borrowed money so they could submit "balanced" budgets. But that was fine to people like uconnbill because they spent money on things he liked.

Connecticut will bounce back. And thanks to climate change denial it may be sooner than later, once the South runs out of water and the fire ants completely take over.
 
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zls44 said:
Plus CT has the second-highest average income per capita, one of the best public education systems in the country and is one of the most literate and healthy states in the country.

But don't let the facts get in the way of a good illogical taxation rant.





You. Get. What. You. Pay. For.
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That's horseshiite. I don't get a damn thing that I want for my tax dollars, I've got a bloated and completely out of control spending local fire department and police department that continues to justify their spending because we need police and fire, to control the society. And they're right, because the socioeconomic profile of the community is changing that way.

When it comes to tax dollars, you don't get what you pay for, that's crap. You get what you vote for.

Right now, the state government and state union workers control everything, and that's the problem. The state is largest employer, and awarder of construction, building, infrastructure projects and has mandated that such work go only to state unionized labor. Business taxation is through the roof. not only is it through the roof, these balloon knots in Hartford, that were elected primarily by the populations they serve (welfare community) RETROACTIVELY taxed businesses back to 2011. It wasn't good enough to just hike taxes going forward, they went backward to do it too. Estates? Estate planning in CT is a huge business, because everybody that has a mortgage that has been paid off, or is close to paid off, knows that the state is going to ream their asses when they croak. Medicaid is the biggest joke of a policy in the state. it's absolutely shameful the waste that goes on there. I can tell you stories about CT that would make you cringe.

The bottom line is that we need elected officials that are going to cater to the needs of the society that can change things back for the better. The problem there, is that by the time most people reach the age and productivity level that it would take to change things in government, they've either figured out a way to live within the system and their means and feed their families and needs, and have no interest in creating growth and putting the work and effort it takes into fighting this system, or they've moved out.

It's a big problem. But ti's not the end of the world. It's better to have these problems, than be in a place like Afghanistan or Somalia for example. But were getting close. Instead of actual pirates and raiders and heroin dealers in control of everything in the open, we've got corporate pirates and raiders in control.
 
Waquoit said:
Does that include John Rowland and Jodi Rell? They were in charge for 16 years and never addressed structural change to improve the situation. In fact, they spent and spent on borrowed money so they could submit "balanced" budgets. But that was fine to people like uconnbill because they spent money on things he liked.
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Yup - for me it does. I don't affiliate with a political party. You are what your record is, not what you label yourself.
 
It's very convenient to blame the Dems or the Repubs. Hell, I think Weicker was an independent. All sides share the blame for the decline of CT and there does not seem to be any conviction from any of our 'leaders' to fix the slide. Just a lot of patchwork legislation and budgetary smoke and mirrors. They never address the fundamental issue of spending. Again, if the Forbes article is even half correct, the scariest thing IMO opinion is the state's ratio of debt to GDP. Startling and scary and very Greece-like
 
Waquoit said:
Does that include John Rowland and Jodi Rell? They were in charge for 16 years and never addressed structural change to improve the situation. In fact, they spent and spent on borrowed money so they could submit "balanced" budgets. But that was fine to people like uconnbill because they spent money on things he liked.

Connecticut will bounce back. And thanks to climate change denial it may be sooner than later, once the South runs out of water and the fire ants completely take over.
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So if our state's strategy is to wait for water to run out and fire ants to take over, then I'm much more relieved :)
 
Skiblets said:
It's very convenient to blame the Dems or the Repubs. Hell, I think Weicker was an independent. All sides share the blame for the decline of CT and there does not seem to be any conviction from any of our 'leaders' to fix the slide. Just a lot of patchwork legislation and budgetary smoke and mirrors. They never address the fundamental issue of spending. Again, if the Forbes article is even half correct, the scariest thing IMO opinion is the state's ratio of debt to GDP. Startling and scary and very Greece-like
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I use the bleeding heart term a lot, because it's an umbrella to me. There's an interesting paragraph in that Forbes article from McGovern - who tried to run a hotel business in CT but went belly up. THe road to hell is paved with good intentions. What's happened, and Malloy himself is a product of it too, is that the state government over the years has been elected, and elected officials, the vast majority of which, are truly only concerned about one thing - getting elected - cater to the needs of those that they know will elect them. I'll leave that at that.

There has been prevailing thought among people like minded to me, for several years now. The single most effective, and wide ranging thing that can happen, to create positive, immediate, and long lasting change for government in the U.S., whether it be local, state, or federal - is that all elected officials serve at most two terms, and once their terms are over, they no longer have any government benefits, and must enter the private work force again.

I would vote for anyone, that advocated that, regardless of their political, social, views.

These are the views of a DEMOCRATIC senator and presidential candidate that ran a failed business in CT.

Former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern learned all this the hard way. In 1988, he bought, renovated and operated a 150-room hotel and conference center in Stratford, Connecticut. The business went bankrupt two years later. McGovern reflected on his experience in the Wall Street Journal: “My business associates and I lived with federal, state and local rules that were all passed with the objective of helping employees, protecting the environment, raising tax dollars for schools, protecting our customers from fire hazards, etc. While I never have doubted the worthiness of these goals, the concept that most often eludes legislators is: ‘Can we make consumers pay the higher prices for increased operating costs that accompany public regulation and government reporting requirements with reams of red tape.’ It is a simple concern that is nonetheless often ignored by legislators.”
 
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