Last year, my wife’s siblings sold their mother’s house in Florida and had the furnishings shipped up here using the PODS Company.

When picking up the container, the PODS employee asked me an interesting question, “So, are you moving into Connecticut or out?” I answered, “Neither. I live here. But why do you ask?” His answer, “I’m doing a survey, and its bad news. For every 10 people I service, one is coming; nine are going." 

And therein lays Connecticut’s problem. Yes, Gov. Dannel Malloy may be starting bipartisan budget talks. But note the most important phrase tucked away in his most recent remarks, “$118.4 million in cuts are necessary due to a drop in state income tax revenue.” Taxpaying citizens are leaving in droves. They have had enough. This coupled with our business community exodus portends very bad news for the state.

Malloy and our Democratic legislature have pushed residents far past their tipping points and into a proverbial death spiral; more taxpayers leaving translates into less tax revenues, which causes higher taxes and even more taxpayers being chased away.

We are now on the slippery slope downward, a trend almost impossible to reverse. Second-class state, here we come. 

Dr. Robert A. Linden

East Lyme