Connecticut Dem Gov Candidate Chris Mattei Embraces Malloy’s High-Tax, Anti-Jobs Agenda

After almost eight years of disastrous tax-and-spend policies that have crippled Connecticut’s economy under Failed Governor Dan Malloy and his Democrat Enablers, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Chris Mattei wants to double-down on the same destructive agenda that drove the state into fiscal and economic crisis. New video of Mattei at a recent campaign event shows the liberal trial lawyer coming out in favor of multiple tax and fee hikes, calling for “creative revenue solutions” with the state sales tax, confirming he’s “in favor of tolls,” and even proposing “a robot tax” from California that he’d like to look at bringing to Connecticut. Even after the state suffered another credit downgrade due to “reduced revenue-raising flexibility after substantial tax increases,” Mattei seems to think even more tax hikes are what Connecticut needs. Mattei’s decision to double down on Malloy’s catastrophic policies proves that he’d only be more of the same if elected.

CHRIS MATTEI: “So one of the things that we’re looking at and some of you, if you’ve been at one of my talks recently you’ve heard me talk about what California is pursuing, which is called a robot tax. And the idea is that, for every job that is displaced as a result of automation or a robot, is, the employer has to continue to pay roll tax on that person as if they’re still employed, and that payroll tax then gets put towards a retraining fund so that folks whose jobs are misplaced there’s funding available to make sure they get retraining in an area that’s growing where their job’s available.” 

CHRIS MATTEI: “I do think that we need to look closely at the sales tax and how it’s constructed, because we’ve gone from, we have a sales tax that is outdated. In that it tax items and consumables instead of services, right? And we’ve gone to a service economy. So that is an area where we could be more competitive, and when there’s an opportunity for us to kind of have creative revenue solutions there.”

CHRIS MATTEI: “Well I told yeah, I’m in favor of tolls, now that’s not immediate, the revenue starts to come in two to three years but just in terms of projecting revenue I think that is important…”