By Chris Powell, includes “At Governor Lamont's order state government is reducing its direct subsidies to businesses coming into the state or expanding here … These subsidies have reeked of political patronage and corporate welfare … The Lamont administration's new idea is to subsidize incoming businesses by rebating to them some of the state income taxes paid by their employees. … Last week the Yankee Institute offered a better and perfectly fair idea: Eliminate grants, loans, and tax credits to new businesses and simply repeal Connecticut's corporation business tax.”