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Lamont Relies On Federal Funds To Close Budget Deficit, Calls for Connecticut Comeback
 Gov. Ned Lamont pitched a two-year, $46 billion budget Wednesday that seeks to close a $4 billion deficit over that same time period.
The deficit Lamont seeks to close is larger than the one projected by his own budget office and the legislature’s Office of Fiscal Analysis, and budget analysts say their estimates are conservative because the pandemic is making it harder to predict what will happen to Connecticut’s economy. Read more
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 Opinion: If Now Isn’t the Time to Raise Taxes on the Wealthy, When Is?
Besides maybe the possibility of zoning reform, there’s nothing that upsets the wealthy and the upper middle class in Connecticut more than a proposed tax hike that applies only to them. Susan Bigelow has more
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