In Denial: Refusing to Face Budget Deficit Reality

by: jdooley December 21, 2009

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 [...]

Good Budget Rejected

by: jdooley June 12, 2009

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.