Recent comments in /f/Connecticut

SKIPPY_IS_REAL t1_j8kcu82 wrote

Set a profit cap, this will sound a little crazy because it is complicated, but hear me out. Brand new idea. Instead of price caps, you set a profit cap, any money not directly reinvested in expanding utilities and growth has a cap. Set max profits to 5% of the company's value, and anything over that is taxed 110%. The tax over 100% is important so the company isn't incentivized to fund the state.

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eddie964 t1_j8jp1gd wrote

The ads paid by customers are generally promoting efficiency and conservation programs that are funded through hidden taxes on your bill; Eversource is mandated to run the programs, advertise them, and notify customers about where the money comes from.

Eversource would have to pay for ads that simply promote the company using shareholder dollars.

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pd9 t1_j8jjw9q wrote

Well, you’re kind of missing the point then. The message she delivers in her video is that there needs to be change in the way of legislation. It’s time to stop empathizing (read- sending thoughts and prayers) with how it must feel to have lived through this or lived through it twice and start listening, conversing and debating on how legislation is the only real way to make any impactful change to something that everyone and their mother knows is only an issue here in this country.

Kudos to this young adult to have the strength to send a message during a time that is no doubt incredibly painful for her.

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