Fairfield County Population Declined in 2006

by turfgrrl

August 11th, 2007 · 37 Comments

Tags: Economy · In the News

37 Responses so far ↓ “Fairfield County Population Declined in 2006”

• 1 Anonymous // Aug 11, 2007 at 11:21 am

  Immigrants in, middle-class out. Looks like a microcosmic replication of the dream (nightmare) system the GOP has been working on for the past seven years. Pretty soon there will be no middle class in Fairfield County too. Just the rich and the poor, nothing in between.

• 2 Roger McBride // Aug 11, 2007 at 11:59 am

  I think they call that the “Peasant/Master” system of Feudal Fiefdom.

  In the meantime all the middle class will have moved to places where taxes and cost of living is back to reality.

• 3 blood from a stone // Aug 11, 2007 at 5:45 pm

  Poster #1: Are You Kidding??? Blame the GOP??? What are you smoking? The GOP wants less taxes and less Government. Thank your dopey Dems for taxing the Bejesus out of us with all those programs they keep pushing. Who the hell do you think pays for it all? Us… that’s who. Want to know why people can’t afford to stay here anymore? Read this:

  Tax his land,
  Tax his wage,
  Tax his bed in which he lays.
  Tax his tractor,
  Tax his mule,
  Teach him taxes is the rule.

  Tax his cow,
  Tax his goat,
  Tax his pants,
  Tax his coat.

  Tax his ties,
  Tax his shirts,
  Tax his work,
  Tax his dirt.

  Tax his tobacco,
  Tax his drink,
  Tax him if he tries to think.

  Tax his booze,
  Tax his beers,
  If he cries,
  Tax his tears.

  Tax his bills,
  Tax his gas,
  Tax his notes,
  Tax his cash.

  Tax him good and let him know
  That after taxes, he has no dough.

  If he hollers,
  Tax him more,
  Tax him until he’s good and sore.

  Tax his coffin,
  Tax his grave,
  Tax the sod in which he lays.

  Put these words upon his tomb,
  “Taxes drove me to my doom!”

  And when he’s gone,
  We won’t relax,
  We’ll still be after the inheritance TAX!!

  Accounts Receivable Tax
  Building Permit Tax
  CDL License Tax
  Cigarette Tax
  Corporate Income Tax
  Dog License Tax
  Federal Income Tax
  Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

  Fishing License Tax
  Food License Tax
  Fuel Permit Tax
  Gasoline Tax
  Hunting License Tax
  Inheritance Tax
  Inventory Tax
  IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
  IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),

  Liquor Tax,
  Luxury Tax,
  Marriage License Tax,
  Medicare Tax,
  Property Tax,
  Real Estate Tax,
  Service charge taxes,
  Social Security Tax,
  Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
  Sales Taxes,

  Recreational Vehicle Tax,
  School Tax,
  State Income Tax,
  State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
  Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
  Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax,
  Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,

  Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
  Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
  Telephone State and Local Tax,
  Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
  Utility Tax,
  Vehicle License Registration Tax,

  Vehicle Sales Tax,
  Watercraft Registration Tax,
  Well Permit Tax,
  Workers Compensation Tax.

  COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years
  ago
  And there was prosperity, absolutely no national
  debt,
  The largest middle class in the world and Mom
  stayed Home to raise the kids.

  What the heck happened?

  So you go ahead and listen to Hillary Rotten Clinton, Harry Reid & Pelosi and think what these morons and their beloved Democratic party have done to us.

• 4 blood from a stone // Aug 11, 2007 at 5:46 pm

  TG why dosen’t my previous post show?

• 5 Anonymous // Aug 11, 2007 at 6:59 pm

  #6 - Wow, I guess the Dems are the reason for all the problems that the GOP created while they have been in control of all three branches of the government for the past six years.

  I like your brand of magical thinking and am sure you’ll find some way to keep blaming all the nation’s problems on the Dems when the Nitwit in Chief dumps Iraq on them when he returns to his permanent vacation.

• 6 turfgrrl // Aug 11, 2007 at 7:08 pm

  blood from a stone: This particular libertarian rant that you have posted has been spammed to many people through email. Of course taxes did not originate with the Democratic party, existed in America for longer than 100 years and allows people like Duke Cunningham, Senator Stevens, Young, Hatch, Specter, Shelby, McConnel, Lugar, Lott, Kyl, Inhofe, Domenici, Grassley, Chambliss and Bunning have each in their own special way contributed more to raising your taxes, your children’s taxes and your grand children’s taxes than any other politician in office with the exception of spend America into bankruptcy George W. Bush.

  I get so annoyed when faux fiscal conservatives decide to to tackle the issue of uncontrolled government spending by focusing on the wrong issue with idiocy.

• 7 ANonymous // Aug 11, 2007 at 8:00 pm

  I think taxes actually got out of control with Roosevelt. The concept of take from the rich and give to the poor became take from the rich and give to the poor, the lazy, and anyone else who wants to live on the dole. Why did Connecticut end up like this? Because in the 80’s, we had a state government made it easier to collect welfare than in any other state on the east coast. Keep creating more low income housing in Norwalk while other cities reduce theirs, and the situation will worsen and the tax burden on homeowners will increase.

• 8 blood from a stone // Aug 11, 2007 at 10:17 pm

  Idiocy TG? What does it matter if it was “spammed to many through e-mail? What point does that make? The FACT is it’s the truth and that is what makes it relevant. Wheather taxes did or did not originate with the dems is of little importance. I Too can recite a list to you as well of the many, many dem lib politicians who have caused our taxes to sky rocket. Which party is known for raising taxes, for taking money from those who earn it to give it away in social programs to every loser deadbeat who doesn’t want to earn his own way. It CERTAINLY isn’t the republicans. When my family came here from Europe, they struggled and worked hard to get what they EARNED. Today, thanks to the ilk left politicians you champion, we have monies they do not earn going to them via your leftist programs. Not that long ago, if you were an able bodied person, you worked for your supper, nowadays we have progams & entiltlements. Peter the Great said “If you don’t work, you don’t eat”. Take a good look at that list TG. Look at the line that says “SCHOOL TAX”. You of all people have to know how this lovely tax has been abused by the local ALL DEM BOE to screw every taxpayer in Norwalk. I can tell you as a parent with two children, it gets harder & harder to make ends meet year after year. Taxes increase at percentages greater that household incomes do. Is it any wonder people are leaving Fairfield county in groves as you have pointed out in this thread? I know you are for affordable housing. I am not. As many have pointed out in your past threads, SOMEONE has to pay to make up for these handouts. Who’s going to pay for the schools, roads, etc. needed for these people paying at a lesser rate that the rest of Norwalkers? Who do you think it is? The taxpayer of course. let the taxpayer subsidize your “low cost Housing” As a concervative I believe in the free market and I am tired of struggling to pay TAXES for those who aren’t willing to break their backside to make a living that will support THEIR lifestyle. Today we have that ridiculous “living Wage” nonsence because if someone wants to make a living stuffing grocery bags at the Stop & Shop then he should be ENTITLED to a living wage to support his family. What Nonsence. Let that bag stuffer go get a real job that will pay him a greater salary even if he has to use a shovel & dig like my dad did when he came to this country. He Hardly spoke english, yet he came here LEGALLY with no government handouts EVER, broke his ASS in constrution, saved, bought a house, put his children through schooling, including college and hhelped them get off on the right foot once we got married. AGAIN….ALL WITHOUT GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE. The idiocy I see is giving me the list of politicians you recite as the real problem. I know you don’t like George Bush, so what. Many don’t, but then again I just saw the lastest pole on the Harry Reid/ Nancy Pelosi congress at 14%!! The LOWEST RATING EVER for Congress as George Bushs climbed by double digits. How funny it is to see you all ridicule George Bush, yet he has been elected twice, Unlike those two flakes Gore & Kerry. Yes, Yes, You all have that blimptous, crass, pompous attitude that you are smarter than the rest of the country, you know better…but you lose. We Need to stop the over taxing of Americans. How many times have George Bush said that lower taxes are best for the ecomomy because workers keep their own money instead of shoving it over to the politicns to spend? Well he’s right. And it has been proven by our economies growth. I apologize for my long retort, but I don’t react kindly to “idiotic Responces”

• 9 Anonsense // Aug 11, 2007 at 10:48 pm

  The first Federal income tax was imposed (under Article I, section 8, clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution) during the Civil War, then again in the 1890s, and again after the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified in 1913. (according to Wikipedia)

  So it was started to pay for a war and continues to pay for a war. Maybe you should stop supporting America’s wars…and the president’s that get us into them, Blood from a Stone.

• 10 Watchdog // Aug 11, 2007 at 10:56 pm

  Turfgrrl: Is that really your response as poster #6?

  It seems out of character for you. I’ve never known you to be so hard on a guest poster for expressing a response to another poster unless they attacked you personally.

• 11 blood from a stone // Aug 11, 2007 at 11:46 pm

  Yes watchdog, for some reason no one notices the ridiculous anti-GOP post #1. When I retort to that person I get the idoicy comments. We are all taxed up the you know what. People have to be responsible for their own lives. If you choose to do whatever “career” you do in life, it is not the job of your fellow citizens to subsidize your wages. Job doesn’t pay enough? Then get a job that does or get a second job. I personally know all to many people that have left this area because they couldn’t keep up with the cost of living. Just think how many taxes & fees we pay. It’s insane. And to listen to this living wage garbage!! It is goverments job to protect our rights, not to hand out subsidies and our cash to people not willing to find a job that pays them what they need to make.

• 12 Anonymous // Aug 12, 2007 at 7:30 am

  Maybe if the government didn’t condone the outsourcing of jobs to other countries and made sure employers were fined for hiring illegal immigrants, there wouldn’t be a need for a living wage.

  However, I bet you’re retired from sound of your posts. If not, you’re probably looking forward to collecting that Social Security subsidy that will soon be a thing of the past.

  Your posts not only reflect profound ignorance but also a callousness toward other people whose circumstances may not fit neatly into the categories you so clearly like to divide life up into.

  The planet will be a better place when you’re not on it anymore.

• 13 Jake Kocian // Aug 12, 2007 at 7:38 am

  I don’t give a damn who is in office, Dems or Pubs. They all take us for a bottomless money pit with their pork and “Ear Marks.” If tomorrow both parties spend our money on really necessary projects, and not political pork, our taxes would go down by 30%. I do not remember my taxes going down during the years that the Dems had Washington DC by the balls Now we have George Bush, who has to spend Billions funding the war, that money has to come from somewhere. I am not saying anything about the war, but the money is not grown on trees in a orchard in Washington DC. It would seem that both parties need a Freaken slap in the face, to let them know that the last drop of blood is being squeezed from the stone. That goes for Federal, state and local POLITICIONS.

  I think by the ratings that Congress has with the American Citizen, that we would do better with a bunch of used car salesman running the country.

  So PLEASE Dems and Republicans don’t take any bows for helping me save on taxes. I have not seen one that was introduced that ever went DOWN.

• 14 blood from a stone // Aug 12, 2007 at 7:56 am

  Anonsence #9: It certainly looks like you looked up the issue of the first income tax in this country, but you somehow tie it to supporting, or rather not supporting the President in a time of war.

  When some claim President Bush shouldn’t have started this war, It angers me. Here’s some FACTS for you Anonsence #9….

  FDR…led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did.
  From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.

  Truman…finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us.
  From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,334 per year.

  John F. Kennedy. ..started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.
  Johnson…turned Vietnam into a quagmire.
  From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.

  Clinton…went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a
  platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

  3. In the years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

  The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but…It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.

  We’ve been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

  It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick killing a woman.

  SO please spare me the “George Bush lied!” mantra. It is stupid and untrue. Here a Video with a collage of all your favorite “Flip-Flop Dems” who cried to get Sadamm and feared his weapons on mass destruction.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=1_Cep58u9wQ

• 15 Anonymous // Aug 12, 2007 at 7:59 am

  Ho hum. More of the usual RepubliCON brainwashing. Useless to try to discuss reality with this one…

• 16 blood from a stone // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:10 am

  Anonymous #12…Are you one of those Dopey dems that cries about outsourcing while you drive around in your Audi, Saab, Volvo or Mercedes with the Kerry Bumper sticker? I’ll bet you are!

  BUZZZ! the buzzer says you’re Wrong (again). I am NOT retired. I am NOT old. I have 2 children in our school system and I am tired of money going to DEADBEATS that choose to accept a goverment check over getting a job. That said, I have to agree with you on the illegal immigrants. They shouldn’t be employed here and most importantly, they shouldn’t be here to begin with. So I agree with you on this issue.

  You accuse me of being callous but you should re-read you last line “The planet will be a better place when you’re not on it anymore.” Now that’s Callous..and cold.

  #13 Jake Kocian: I am with you…Politicians on Both sides are taxing us to the poor house. I am Republican conservative because our idiology is less government, less taxes. (even if it doesn’t always work that way).

• 17 blood from a stone // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:15 am

  #15 whose reality? Your reality? What color are the trees in your world? Again, Another Arrogant, Pompoous, Crass & Blimptious Dem who THINKS he/she is smarter than the rest of us. Do have another drink there #15 or help yourself to another of your fione “hand-rolled cigarette”.

• 18 ANonymous // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:21 am

  Why can’t we end wars quicker? The American public refuses to understand the concept of war. We have become so technologically advanced, the the public expects to win a war without civilian casualties, and our enemies understand that. Unfortunately in war, people die. And when the civilians in a country are tired of suffering from the conflict, they rise up against their government and push to end the war. we never would have won world war 2 with todays Americans. The press and public would have been so outraged over the bombing of Germany and destruction to the civilian population that the military would not have been able to do their job. That is our situation now. Let the military do whatever they have to do to win this war and then get out.

• 19 blood from a stone // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:23 am

  Sorry… Here is the web site to post #14

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_CepS8u9wQ

  have yet ANOTHER drink #15..You need it for this one you lyning spin master.

• 20 blood from a stone // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:27 am

  Halleluja #18!! As long as the wacky left continues to cry about Abu Grab, Guantanimo, etc. and this country continues to listen to these nuts, we’ll stay in this mess. Political Correctness has never won a war.

• 21 turfgrrl // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:47 am

  Watchdog: I have no tolerance for spam, and this “post” was posted 20 times in the spam filter yesterday.

• 22 turfgrrl // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:55 am

  blood from a stone: you wrote The FACT is it’s the truth and that is what makes it relevant. . Actually, your post is devoid of facts, starting with the myth of when taxes started, more than 100 years ago. The myth that the greatest middle class was in 1907 America, which of course it was in Britain. The most recent time the American national debt was retired was under Clinton. That balanced budget was recently squandered by the faux conservatives that have run the modern Republican party. Taxing is not the problem. Out of control spending is, and as long as people focus on the wrong problem then no solution is in sight.

• 23 blood from a stone // Aug 12, 2007 at 7:07 pm

  TG if you read my other post you can see that I couldn’t care less when taxes were implemented. I didn’t live 100 years ago, I’m living in the here and now. I say taxing is the problem, you said out of control spending is the problem. Tomato, Toe-mato. Well if our politicians are spending out of control, doesn’t that make them ask for more money for their budgets?? Of course it does. And doesn’t this money they come from the taxpayers?? Of course it does. Just look at the BOE here in Norwalk. Close to 70% of our tax dollars goes to a school budget authored by a buffoon, Sal Corda. TG you and I are basiclly saying the same thing. I got pissed off by posters #1 anti-GOP comment and your listing of several GOP politicians. You know I could easily give you twice the list of Dem politicians that love to spend & earmark our tax dollars like an endless fountain. Government waste knows no party inparticular. You have to admit our taxes are killing the taypayer for many reasons including the issue you raised - OVERSPENDING.

• 24 Beach Bum // Aug 12, 2007 at 10:05 pm

  I tend to agree with what “blood from a stone” has to stay though I didn’t take a look at his youtube listing. The democrats are a tax and spend group w/ a few exceptions. It started w/FDR. I’ve recently read excepts from Amity Shlaes’ book The Forgotten Man. I knew FDR started alot of bureaucratic government agencies. I never knew how wacky he was when he made his final economic decisions. And we all know how much Eleanor loved the socialists. It was WWII that saved FDR’s career. As I am writing this post, I originally thought the democrats were trying to help the underdog. But, it was the republicans who voted overwelmingly for the civil rights laws of L Johnson. So then why do the democrats have such a reputation? They want to redistribute the money, ie. make everyone economically equal. Or maybe thay are just buying votes through the “pork”. Unfortunately the republicans are taking on this strategy. I think it may have started w/Nixon. Reagan tried to keep it in check. It started again under Bush I, went through the roof under Clinton and continues w/ Bush II. What it boils down to is ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! We have microcosms of that in Nowalk and in Fairfield Ct. and in Connecticut.

• 25 One of the 25 // Aug 13, 2007 at 7:56 am

  “Republicans who voted overwhelmingly for the civil rights laws of Lyndon Johnson.” I don’t know where you are getting your information, Beach Bum, but LBJ was quoted as saying the political backlash from Civil Rights Act he pushed through would be responsible for changing the South from Democratic to Republican, and he was right.

  You also neglect to mention that FDR was responsible for putting vast numbers of unemployed Americans back to work with the WPA projects, that there was actually a budget SURPLUS under Clinton, for the first time in my life, and that the spending orgy in Washington for the past six years was conducted by the GOP.

  Cherry picking the info as usual, just like the idiots who got us into Iraq.

• 26 blood from a stone // Aug 13, 2007 at 8:34 am

  Beach Bum, to me, Your right on many of your points. I don’t have to go back 100 years to find the “first taxes”. Lets go back 40 years ago to when I was a kid. As the “spammed E-mail” that TG dislikes, it is truthful in that these are all taxes and fees we pay nowadays and that my mom was able to stay at home and raise my siblings and me, My dad worked hard long hours as a construction laborer and my parents provided us with a comfortable lifestyle, not extravagant. They were able to pay their bills, put us through schooling, including college, and have money left to save for the future. For most young couples today in Fairfield this is a fantacy. BOTH parents these days need to provide an income just to keep their heads above water. Many find themselves asking, “Is it worth killing myself to live here just to work so hard just to pay the bills?” How many people do we all know that have left our Area to go to the Carolinas, Florida or some other haven that allows them to put part of their paycheck aside every week toward savings? I personally know many and I’m sure you all do as well. Folks, Living in Fairfield is NOT Fair. Unilke the Pompous Ass poster #15, who assumes from this thread and another one on this site, that I am some well to do old rich person with investment portfolios, stocks & bonds,etc,etc. Hogwash! I am in my mid-40’s with children in our public school system(can’t afford to send them to private), I am self employed (which to many Idiots out there seem to think any self-empoled person is rich. More hogwash) I pay my own way for just about everything. My wife has to work fulltime (she gets our benefits, which durning the last several years have skyrocketed so high we couldn’t afford to pay them ourselfves as we always did before), We bASICALLY WORK TO PAY BILLS, we don’t even get a day off together as a family anymore. This is why people I get Pissed off when I see handouts and rising taxes & fees escalate year after year. Turf Girl is right by saying Overspending politicians are a problem, but so is having to ask the taxpayer to subsidize others when he has a hard enough time trying to get by himself. I repeat, it is governments purpose to protects our rights, NOT to subsidize.

• 27 Anonymous // Aug 13, 2007 at 8:37 am

  B from a S: your ignorant posting only confirms my belief that conservatives are incapable of understanding ironic humor (see my posting #15). BTW, I’m self-employed, too, asswipe, and if you don’t like Fairfield County, you can always pack your bags.

• 28 blood from a stone // Aug 13, 2007 at 8:40 am

  Hey “one of the 25″, why dont you look at post #19
  or here it is:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_CepS8u9wQ

  and see the “idiots” who got us into Irag as you put.
  This is the finest group of “Cherry picking” Buffons you’ll ever need to see.

• 29 Anonymous // Aug 13, 2007 at 8:51 am

  Sorry, BS; I get my information from sources that require the use of reading comprehension skills, which you obviously are lacking in. Start with the one syllable words and work your way up, pretty soon you, too, can be Mayor of Norwalk!

• 30 blood from a stone // Aug 13, 2007 at 9:00 am

  Looky-looky folks! Just look at who the real “Cherry Picker” is! He won’t look at a video of the real idiots is Washiongton who are spinning their BULL $H-T because He only reads his information!!!! Your just a pompous self-rightous ass as I already pointed out. “Ohh! he can’t watch because his he is so smart and full of himself, he only reads ooh! READ THIS - HA HA! The truth is you saw the video but you CAN’T respond to it because it proves the buffoon that you are. You and those “BUSH LIED” idiots are nothing by cherry picking, flip-flopping lying bastards.

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