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Only in Connecticut could the politicians who made life unaffordable hold a press conference blaming someone else for people going hungry. On October 29, Senate Democrats led by Martin Looney (D-New Haven) and Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) shrieked that President Trump was “willfully starving his own people” — a “first in American history,” according to Duff.
Spare us the sermon. These are the same lawmakers who run one of the most expensive states in the country, who jack up electricity costs, property taxes, and food prices — and then claim moral outrage when federal checks are delayed. Connecticut Democrats are the pyromaniacs complaining about smoke.
According to the Tax Foundation, Connecticut’s tax code ranks a glorious 47th out of 50 — a near-perfect score in the “How to Ruin a State” category. Only New York, New Jersey, and California managed to do worse.
The state punishes work with seven income-tax brackets topping out at 6.99 percent, hits businesses with a 7.5 percent corporate tax and an extra 10 percent surtax for daring to succeed, and squeezes homeowners with the highest property-tax burden in America — dead last, 50th place.
But sure, tell us again how it’s Trump’s fault people in Connecticut can’t afford groceries.
Yet here was Duff, eyes misty, declaring that Washington Republicans were the reason his constituents couldn’t afford food.
Looney piled on, calling the situation “a god-awful tragedy” caused by “Trump tax cuts for the very, very wealthy.” He urged Connecticut Republicans to “join us in urging the Trump administration to release $5 billion” in contingency funds.
That’s rich coming from a state that just finished a $26 billion budget stuffed with giveaways to bureaucracies and union perks while ordinary families drown in taxes.
But listen long enough and every Democrat on the podium sounds like they’re auditioning for a Hallmark movie titled “How to Pretend You Care.”
“We are literally, by choice, allowing people to go hungry,” declared Sen. Jorge Cabrera (D-Hamden). Indeed we are — after years of tax hikes, sky-high property bills, and utility costs that squeeze every paycheck before it even reaches the fridge.
Sen. Saud Anwar (D-South Windsor) actually compared the situation to The Hunger Games — apparently missing the irony that Connecticut’s tax policy already turned its middle class into District 12. He warned that the country was “walking away” from its duty to feed citizens, calling the federal standoff a “crime against humanity.”
Meanwhile, the same Democrats who created Connecticut’s affordability crisis are scrambling for excuses for why it’s someone else’s fault. In Hartford, “taking action” means forming a task force, commissioning a study, and launching a “pilot program” that costs more than it saves. They’ll call it progressive, hold a ribbon-cutting, and congratulate themselves for caring — while nothing actually changes for the people stuck paying the price.
If feeding people really mattered, Duff and Looney could have suspended the state’s grocery tax on prepared foods, lifted some of the regulations that make a Connecticut Big Mac cost more than a New York steak sandwich, or used a fraction of the state’s Rainy Day Fund to offer relief. But with elections next week, it’s easier to let people starve so Democrats can claim only they can save them.
Two days earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson laid out a different set of “simple facts” in Washington: that Democrats themselves were prolonging the shutdown for political leverage. “We have to have Democrats to reopen the government… They voted 13 times to keep it closed,” he said. His point: Republicans passed a short-term funding bill to keep programs like SNAP running, but Senate Democrats refused to vote unless they got billions for their pet projects—from global “LGBTQ awareness campaigns” to foreign “feminist democracy grants.”
If Trump truly controls the weather, food prices, and Connecticut’s cost of living from Mar-a-Lago, maybe Duff should ask him to lower our electric bills, too. Otherwise, the senator might consider looking closer to home. His party writes every budget, appoints every commissioner, and signs every spending bill.
The next time Connecticut Democrats fire up the cameras to cry about a “Republican shutdown,” remember: this is the same crew that shut down affordability years ago. They built the bureaucracy, wrecked affordability, and drove out the taxpayers. Now they’re standing over the wreckage pointing at Washington.
If hypocrisy were food, Connecticut wouldn’t need SNAP.
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