A CT Mirror article published on Nov. 21 pointed out that Connecticut’s income tax was never meant to be temporary, refuting a common talking point employed by lawmakers and political candidates, the public, No Tolls
Gov. Lowell Weicker
Connecticut’s pension crisis for its State Employee Retirement System has consistently been blamed on “decades of underfunding,” which is true… mostly. Missing from the conversation is that in 1971 Connecticut passed a law which says
BUDGET ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR LOWELL P. WEICKER, JR. JOINT SESSION OF THE CONNECTICUT GENERAL ASSEMBLY HALL OF THE HOUSE, STATE CAPITOL FEBRUARY 13, 1991 Madam President, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the General Assembly,