Recent comments in /f/Connecticut
Darkling5499 t1_j5zqtoj wrote
Reply to CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
Legislatures should make minimum wage, no more no less.
Jawaka99 t1_j5zq9ni wrote
Funny, as of now 617 people up voted a post in this thread asking whether the lawmakers had anything better to do or not. I wonder if we'll see the same reaction here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Connecticut/comments/10l8761/house_rep_joe_hoxha_proposed_bills_that_would/
welcomebackjelly t1_j5zq60l wrote
Reply to comment by mynameisnotshamus in Town Fair Tire Subreddit by RedditMaster679
Yep blew my mind, my theory is they killed the battery by leaving the keys in and then tried to jump it with way too much voltage
MormonReformist OP t1_j5zq2ve wrote
Reply to comment by ctmirror in CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
> House passage came on a 95-53 vote after a brief and seemingly choreographed debate in which two Democrats and three Republicans spoke in support and no one rose in opposition
That's pretty much how it all goes.
BoatAccidentSurvivor t1_j5zpnh1 wrote
Reply to CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
Good. They deserve less. Should be volunteer.
IndicationOver t1_j5zpdjm wrote
Reply to We ask ChatGPT about New Haven. It says the city is 'historic, vibrant' with 'diverse culture' by gyokuro
Its all fun and games until r/ChatGPT wrecks CTs insurance and finance industry
ChatGPT could make these jobs obsolete: ‘The wolf is at the door’
Proud-Breakfast-8429 t1_j5zoil5 wrote
Everource bill hike or pizza state food. CT has it priorities
ctmirror t1_j5zof9x wrote
Reply to CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
Hi! Just jumping in here to say that legislators' salaries were raised to $40,000 annually on Jan. 4 under a bill passed by the CT General Assembly last May. For more info: https://ctmirror.org/2022/05/03/ct-house-approves-raises-for-lawmakers-statewide-officers/
~Gabby (CT Mirror)
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MormonReformist OP t1_j5zmsat wrote
Reply to comment by Blicero1 in CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
Interesting incentives...
jules13131382 t1_j5zm9rm wrote
Reply to The inventory of houses suck by KindaEgotistical
I completely agree with you, it sucks. I was told to wait till spring.
Burwylf t1_j5zlem9 wrote
So we would go from the nutmeg state to the pizza state? Let's do it.
JJamesP t1_j5zk7gs wrote
Reply to CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
It’s a part time gig. Settle down, you.
steinrog OP t1_j5zk6ki wrote
Reply to comment by topsheetisamust in Question for in state Bowhunters by steinrog
Middletown
bent_peepee t1_j5zk0vk wrote
not hard to fix:
- ban all single use plastics.
- better recycling infrastructure
smkmn13 t1_j5zjbcf wrote
Reply to comment by nikedude in CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
The person I was responding to said "that’s still more or roughly the same as what many other jobs make from working all year," so I was clarifying that all (FT, full year) jobs in Connecticut are actually required to earn more than 28k.
Scaling the pay for 4 months implies that you can get a job for the remaining 8 months at a similar rate, but there aren't many jobs / careers that allow you to work 8 months a year and keep the job each year, let alone advance normally, unless you're already well established and successful (which was the point of my original comment earlier in this chain).
Ziggy1433 t1_j5zio8i wrote
Reply to CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
I'm SURE there are other perks to being there...
MormonReformist OP t1_j5zi74b wrote
Reply to comment by Big-Pond in CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
Yeah, everyone keeps mentioning education. And power costs/corruption with eversource, and taxes. Those would be good things to run on.
nikedude t1_j5zhxab wrote
Reply to comment by smkmn13 in CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
That's an unfair argument. If their job was FT it would be less than minimum wage, it averages ~4mo a year of work. 16 weeks * 40 hr = 640hrs. $28k/640hrs = $43.75/hr
Big-Pond t1_j5zhrnv wrote
Reply to CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
Well, you certainly have the requisite level of critical reasoning, research and data analysis to qualify for office.
I’d encourage you to look up starting salary’s to attract educator talent to our public schools…just keep in mind -that- number isn’t part time, unlike the assembly.
sicknaban8 t1_j5zh4sc wrote
Reply to Question for in state Bowhunters by steinrog
And some have passwords that I have no idea how to obtain. I've been very dissatisfied with attempting to register for the course on the DEEP website. Very dissatisfied
MormonReformist OP t1_j5zgt1w wrote
Reply to comment by AhbabaOooMaoMao in CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
What for? The stakes are low. I don't feel foolish. Plus, I learned a lot.
Zreaz t1_j5zgrc7 wrote
Reply to comment by rewirez5940 in The inventory of houses suck by KindaEgotistical
Yea, CT as a whole has been trending downward pretty decently for the last ten years. It also wasn't hit nearly as hard by the Covid crime spike that a lot of rest of the country saw.
Strat7855 t1_j5zgd8p wrote
Reply to comment by RunnyDischarge in CT's legislature salaries are starvation wages, $28k/year. You have to be retired or rich to serve. This is regressive and should be changed. by MormonReformist
But in reality it's a fulltime job and then some, if you're doing it right.
Jeepdog539 t1_j5zr2t6 wrote
Reply to comment by Jawaka99 in 'Pizza bill' back for seconds as lawmakers consider CT state food by boujeeFett
Judging by the circle jerk that any pizza related posts become on this sub, this thread is definitely not going to garner the same outrage. The pizza bill is the lords work, according to the sub.