HARTFORD (May 3) – “Connecticut’s unprecedented budget surplus meant state officials could have given middle-class families and businesses meaningful relief from the destructive Malloy-era tax hikes. Instead, Governor Lamont and the General Assembly squandered that surplus on a mix of election-year tax gimmicks and a spending spree that will together hike general fund expenditures almost 7 percent next year. Worst of all, the entire 673-page budget bill was voted on just hours after lawmakers received copies—and before Connecticut residents could make sense of it.”
Statement attributable to Carol Platt Liebau, President of Yankee Institute.
