16 April—Meanwhile, back in Connecticut, Democrat Anne Hughes, allegedly representing Easton, Weston, and part of Redding in the state’s incorrigible House of Representatives since 2019, adeptly rose to the task of actually reflecting and representing her shamefully shameless party’s arrogant contempt for the people she and it are supposed to represent.

Yesterday—Tax Day, as it happens—during a press conference staged by the Democrat (of course) Tax Equity (of course) Caucus to push for a capital gains tax increase (of course) and broadcast by CT-N (the Connecticut Network that provides round-the-clock coverage of state government and public—but never private—affairs), Hughes, evidently not realizing that the microphones in front of her face were still live, smugly boasted to her fiscally irresponsible, tax-happy pals,“We’re not rich. But I always tell the governor to tax my people. They won’t even notice.”

“Tax my people. They won’t even notice.” Remember that as a Democrat mantra. While it’s doubtful Hughes ever really told that to Gov. Ned Lamont, her careless lapse of reticence speaks eloquent volumes of her ruling party’s arrogantly insouciant tax-and-spend modus operandi. And judging by Lamont’s record, he doesn’t disagree.

Connecticut already has one of the highest tax burdens in the country. And, suffice to say, people who pay the state’s unconscionably excessive taxes are getting less for their money while people who don’t pay taxes are getting more for other people’s money.

And the Democrats’ latest stratagem to steal money from the non-indigent and suck up to their traditional base, Raised Bill 7273, involves taxing soda and other sweetened beverages, allegedly to fund free school lunches for all pupils. That in itself is ridiculous. But sticking a two-cents-per-ounce tax on soda (including sugar-free diet soda) and other beverages and ingredients to pay for it is unacceptable. It makes Trump’s tariffs look like chicken feed and child’s play.

That’s why, with an emendation or two, 7273 likely will become law in the lopsided Democrat General Assembly. With Ned Lamont’s full approval, to be sure, since he proposed similar legislation in 2019.

As Kevin Kauffman succinctly offered in testimony against the deplorable bill: “Is there anything that exists that Democrats won’t try to tax? Good lord. Please stop this bill before it embarrasses all of you. But you won’t stop SNAP [formerly Food Stamps] benefits from being used to buy this stuff. Now I understand why.”