House and Senate Republicans today proposed an alternative balanced budget that eliminates massive Democratic tax increases, preserves vital programs and services at 2007 levels, and greatly reduces government costs through consolidations, agency mergers, retirements and salary and benefit concessions. The proposal requires no reduction to municipal aid – including no reduction in education funding to [...]
When the state legislature’s majority Democrats Wednesday refused to consider more than token cuts in state spending in the face of a mounting budget deficit they may have set the stage for major tax increases that could devastate middle class families in Waterbury, Middlebury and elsewhere in Connecticut, state Representative Anthony J. D’Amelio said.
As the 2009 General Assembly session gets underway, legislators’ most important goal must be to resolve the state’s budget crisis in ways that do not aggravate and prolong the recession, resulting in more business failures and job losses, state Representative Anthony J. D’Amelio said today.
