Taxes
There's a letter printed in today's Greenwich Time (no link because that paper's pathetic website can't be bothered to put it up) from a reader who not only wants higher taxes imposed on all of us but implies that the Founding Fathers would, too. I wasn't particularly surprised at the writer's historical and economic ignorance - those qualities are prerequisites to breaking out in print at GT - but I was a little dismayed when I turned to the paper's coverage of the debate between our two vying candidates for State Rep, Ed Krumich and Fred Camillo. Krumeich's answer to all our problems, at least according to the article, was for more state spending.

Now either Krumich was being disingenuous - which I don't believe; Ed's a lawyer, for heaven's sake! - or he truly doesn't know that Greenwich already sends $600 million a year to Hartford and gets $5 million back. A call for additional state spending, therefore, is actually a demand that Greenwich be taxed even more harshly. Bridgeport certainly isn't going to ante up, that's for sure.

Krumich's other argument for being sent to Hartford is that, as a Democrat, he'll be listened to. That seems to me to be a very bad thing. I think he should stick to writing stupid letters to the Editor of Greenwich Time under his pen name.