UConn staff, students rally against budget cuts, chant “tax the rich” - Marc E. Fitch, Yankee Institute

Carrying signs that read “Support UConn” and “Respect Collective Bargaining,” approximately 300 University of Connecticut staff and students rallied outside the Legislative Office Building to protest proposed cuts to the university included in the bipartisan budget passed by the legislature. Former UConn graduate employee union president, Todd Vachon, led the crowd in chanting “tax the rich” and called for raising taxes on hedge funds and Connecticut’s top income earners. “Rather than making those billionaires pay the same rate we pay, they decide to cut $300 million from UConn,” Vachon said. http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2017/09/uconn-staff-students-rally-against-budget-cuts-chant-tax-the-rich/