"Why Connecticut Is Self-Destructing." If it weren't for the honest, innocent hard-working victims of these collectivist morons, I'd say it couldn't happen to more deserving anal sphincters.

GE Is Considering Leaving Connecticut Over Democrats’ Tax Hikes

Why Connecticut Is Self-Destructing

The final, and perhaps most important, reason for Connecticut's financial decline has been the regional legacy of what used to be called "Rockefeller Republicanism" — a belief in the government's capacity to responsibly manage large social programs. While the broad economic rebound accompanying President Reagan's tax cuts and President Clinton's later endorsement of welfare reform convinced many Americans of the need to fulfill their social obligations through private charity and direct civic involvement, the convenience of just writing a check to Hartford has always retained a lingering appeal for the state's two most influential "can't be bothered" factions: those in the notoriously high-pressure world of finance and those in the notoriously low-pressure world of old money.

Much has made of the fact that three of Connecticut's largest corporations, General Electric, Aetna, and Travelers Insurance, have finally expressed their displeasure over this last round of tax increases along with not-so-veiled threats to move their headquarters to friendlier jurisdictions. But what were the executives of these businesses and their largest shareholders thinking all the years they drove past some of America's most devastated cities — including Bridgeport, Middletown, New Britain, and Waterbury — on their way to work or a night out in Manhattan? Only willful ignorance can explain why such blatant indicators of the state's inability to govern itself failed to register much earlier.