As Republicans predicted during all the budget debates of this past year, Connecticut’s financial house is not in order and continues to struggle with an unbalanced budget. On the revenue side, tax receipts are down in every category: whether they are sales, income, gasoline or estate taxes as well as slot machine revenue Connecticut receives [...]
Here is the New London Day article:
As Budget Fight Drags On, Public Is Mad As … Well …
A balanced, no-tax-increase budget offered by House Republicans on the final day of the 2009 legislative session was rejected by the Democrats by the use of an arcane parliamentary procedure.
On April 2nd, the State Democrats in Hartford proposed the largest tax hike in the state’s history. They did not consolidate or eliminate one of the several, duplicative state agencies and commissions. Moreover, the union heavy workforce was not trimmed down at all, not even through attrition.
HARTFORD – In what can only be called another pilfering of taxpayers in Fairfield County, the Democrats today unleashed a budget that increases income, corporate and estate taxes as well as eliminates many sales tax exemptions. Rep. Fred Camillo and Sen. Scott Frantz, both members of the Appropriations Committee voted against a proposed two-year state [...]
Republicans and Democrats reached across party lines today and voted for the latest deficit mitigation plan, needed to bridge a $1.2 billion budget hole in the state’s budget for this fiscal year. Reps. Lile R. Gibbons and Fred Camillo of Greenwich both voted for the plan.
“This is an historic time, with the opportunity to reform government away from bloated, multi-layered departments to a consolidated and streamlined operation that delivers services quicker and cheaper,” said Rep. Camillo.
“Mayors and First Selectmen across the state last week came to Hartford and asked for no cuts in municipal aid and instead asked for flat [...]
Gov. M. Jodi Rell will make a live, televised address to the state Monday night to warn citizens about impending cuts in the state budget.
Rell has asked the major television networks for time to speak during the 6 p.m. newscasts, and she expects to receive permission from them all.
The speech will begin at about 6:01 [...]
We must change the way things have been done in Hartford for the last several years, business-as-usual won’t work.
We also have opportunity to take the initiative and lead Connecticut to a brighter and longer lasting prosperity by becoming more business friendly and focusing on technologies of the future such as alternative energy sources and medical research by using what the legislature did for the film industry as a model for others.
