Union, Political Activists Criticize GE In Protest

Source: Courant

By Mara Lee

HARTFORD — "GE! Pay your taxes!" The chants of about 45 union and political activists echoed inside the Connecticut Business and Industry Association lobby Thursday.

The group, organized by the Working Families Party and major unions in the state, was delivering a letter to CBIA, the largest business lobby in the state, protesting a threat by Fairfield-based General Electric to leave the state after the legislature passed a budget that would increase GE's corporate income tax liability.

"GE is shortchanging the state and it's leaving the rest of us to pay the difference," said Taylor Leake, spokesman for the Working Families Party.

The letter says: "GE has been paying no corporate income taxes to the state of Connecticut. None."

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