'I Wish America Was Better Than That ...'

FAIRFIELD: "...The solution to the problem is to go back to federal tax rates in the late 70s and the 80s where the super wealthy paid much higher rates. Since the 'Reagan Devolution' in which federal taxes began to be slashed on the super wealthy, combined with massive increases in military spending and massive cuts of money returned to the states, what has 'trickled down' is not prosperity, as Reagan insisted it would, but rather the burden of state and local budgets on property owners. It is unsustainable." Jill Kovacs wrote this in response to a "Letter to the Editor" about

NEW CANAAN: "OK, next poll: Best Church in New Canaan!" wrote this in response to which asked readers to vote for their favorite preschool.

STAMFORD: "Malloy is nothing but a muckraker. He sings the small business sympathy song and then enlists practices like this to put them out of business. Who needs booze on Sunday? Nutmeggers have been living well with current buying patterns for years. All this does is give state government more money to blow with. And that's all Malloy is good for; shoring up tax money and doing nothing but travelling with it." wrote this in response to news about Gov. Malloy's plan to allow gas stations to sell alcohol.

WESTON-REDDING-EASTON: "Our behavior is also a terrible example to our children. It teaches them that the way we handle things is to play up the fear and ignore evidence contrary to our position. That the proper method is to be stricter instead of more logical. That once you've made a decision to stick to it even if serious questions arise in opposition. Pretend you can never be wrong. Make the other side look bad. Scare people. What a great message! What if instead, we had people willing to at least have a conversation? What if we displayed leadership as having the ability to listen to all parties involved? What if we recognized the fact that we don't have the right to boss people around and steal their freedoms unless they were jeopardizing the freedoms of someone else? The war on drugs has clearly displayed the darker side of mankind. Oddly enough it wasn't displayed by the drug users. It was displayed by the ones hell bent on enforcing their will, damn the consequences. I wish America was better than that." wrote this in response to

WILTON: "Before applying any tick repellants, what about the effect on developing amphibians? I've noticed a decrease in amphibians since everybody began spraying 'natural' tick repellants. Less amphibians, more mosquitoes." wrote this in response to news that a Fairfield-based company has developed a