HARTFORD—Reps. John Piscopo and John Rigby today voted in favor of legislation that would immediately stimulate Connecticut’s long-suffering job market by repealing the state’s Business Entity Tax and offering tax credits to companies that create full-time positions. What’s more, the proposal pushed by the two Litchfield County legislators called for Jobs Impact Statements to accompany [...]
HARTFORD—On the last day Connecticut residents had to mail in their tax bills, Rep. John Rigby and his House Republican colleagues today unveiled their 2011 budget erasing the $736 million deficit for 2011 without raising taxes by consolidating agencies and shrinking the public workforce. The balanced plan preserves municipal and school aid, and sets aside [...]
HARTFORD — Finance Committee member Rep. John Rigby today supported a measure that would have ended the business entity tax Connecticut companies have to pay each year. Sen. Andrew Roraback, R-Goshen, proposed it through an amendment to a majority party bill that would impose a nearly 9 percent tax on corporate bonuses of a million [...]
Rep. John Rigby and Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele toured four manufacturing companies today, listening to company owners, employees and executives talk not only about the struggles they’ve experienced in this down economy but also their successes and targeted areas for growth. The two elected officials started the day at Becton Dickinson in Canaan, where executives [...]
WINSTED — Plans here to create a nursing program at Northwestern Connecticut Community College gained momentum when Washington lawmakers in the House and Senate approved $350,000 in federal appropriations money in separate votes over the last couple of days. The legislation now sits on the desk of President Barack Obama, who has already said he’d [...]
Rep. John Rigby participated in Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s Council of Economic Advisers forum, where analysts said Connecticut is technically out of recession as measured by GDP. But those analysts warned that difficult times are still ahead. The housing market, for one, is five to six years away from rebounding to old highs.
HARTFORD — Rep. John Rigby on tonight voted against a huge tax-hike budget that held virtually no spending cuts while demonstrating the legislature’s majority party is unwilling to compromise to settle the state’s multi-billion dollar budget crisis. Rigby, who represents seven Northwest Corner towns, said the plan from Democrat leaders put a sales tax cut [...]
WINSTED — What will another tax on businesses do to manufacturers in this community and others throughout the state? One thing is for certain: It won’t help them create jobs for thousands of unemployed people in Connecticut. That was the message from business leaders here at Alcoa Howmet recently, when Republican state Reps. John Rigby, [...]
HARTFORD — Connecticut residents need jobs, not more taxes. Rep. John Rigby during a Finance Committee meeting today voted against a proposal from the legislature’s majority party that would impose more than $1.8 billion in new taxes at a time when people can least afford it. The balanced budget plan from Rigby and his House [...]
