After claiming for months that she needed to hike income taxes in excess of 10% over the coming biennium, Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that, all of a sudden, new taxes are apparently no longer necessary! The reason? Well, could be that a new poll came out today saying that everyone hates her budget and instead wants to support the "real" Republicans' budget that does not increase taxes. It might also be that the Office of Fiscal Analysis released their revenue estimates today, which bore out exactly what the House Republicans had said when they rolled out their budget: that OPM had grossly underestimated the state's revenues, meaning that they had overtaxed us once again. So now, instead of admitting their mistake or giving credit where credit is due, the Governor is now saying that she can push through her budget without raising taxes, or at least raising them minimally.
In her afternoon press conference the governor also made the "bold" claim that the spending side of the budget needed to be cut? Amazingly she was able to say it with a straight face, since she herself has proposed the largest spending influx into education this state has ever seen! How she is able to justify her rhetoric against her actions is going to be interesting over the coming weeks.
All in all I'm happy to see the Governor remembering that she is, in fact, a Republican. But if she tries to play the "this was my idea" game, she is going to run up against some backpressure from those of use at the grassroots who embraced the House Republicans "NO Tax Increase" budget and spread the word to put the pressure back on our wayward Governor and those spendthrift Democrats to get the message. Give the credit where it's due, Governor, and thank Rep. Cafero and those who've gone around the state enlightening us to the fact that Republicans still exist in Hartford!
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Wow, Speaker. Great read here. I, too, am shocked that the Governor is now jumping on the "NO...OR MAYBE JUST A LITTLE..TAX HIKE". Lisa Moody must have read the polls and flipped the twinky off her desk in her rush to flip flop on the tax increases. But Rell did not give credit to the House R's, or to ANY R's. The next move will be to attack the ENTIRE LEGISLATURE for their tax and spending ways, in an attempt to take back the true Republican mantle. And, it will probably fool the 132% of CT residents who think she is super nice.
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