Ned Lamont

Everybody running against me is always saying they're going to eliminate the income tax in the state of Connecticut.

I think what's more important to the folks I talk to is, what's this state going to look like one year and five years from now?

Do I want to be here because I'm making a five-year bet?

We haven't raised taxes at all.

I've cut them for middle-class folks.

I think that's a good balance.

I need housing.

You know, for the first time in a long time, a lot of young people are moving out here, like the lifestyle.

We're pretty good as a suburban lifestyle, rebuilding our cities.

You know, these are cities were 50% bigger 50 years ago.

Now they're growing again where young people want to be.

As I talk to the businesses and say, is this a place where young people, young employees want to be?

I'm trying to say yes.

Yeah, I'd like to think of us as the Silicon Valley of manufacturing.

We do a lot of complicated stuff like submarines, jet engines and choppers, and they are growing fast.

That's the sort of the heart of our economy in the northern part of the state.

But, you know, that's changing, too.

It's getting increasingly energy intensive.

So I'm going to bring down the price of electricity as best I can and make sure they have the workforce.

It's all sort of an AI computerized workforce now.