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House passes state budget with $2B tax hike; Senate is next

June 3, 2015
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Mark Chapman
The biennial budget continues as the deadline lloms.
The biennial budget continues as the deadline lloms.

HARTFORD, Conn. – After a marathon session of arm twisting through a sleepless night, the House passed a two-year, $40.3 billion budget bill at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Debate on the bill started around 5:30 a.m. and ended with a 73-70 vote in favor of the legislation. Eleven Democrats joined Republicans in voting against the budget, and eight members were absent.

The budget bill that the Senate is expected to take up later today raises nearly $2 billion in taxes, restores some funding that was to be cut from social services, changes how the state thinks about the property tax, and reinterprets the state’s Constitutional spending cap.

In order to find some of the additional revenue to fund the social service cuts proposed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the Democrats on the Appropriations Committee redefined how pension debt is treated, moving payments on that debt out from under the spending cap.

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11 responses to “House passes state budget with $2B tax hike; Senate is next”

  1. Bill

    Shame on Bob Duff for voting for this tax increase, and praises to Chris Perone for standing up for sanity and voting against this tax increase.

    Bob Duff is a real estate agent, maybe he is looking to make money selling homes as we have a huge exodus of companies and taxpayers out of the state.

    Great job Duff….not

    1. Mark Chapman

      @Bill

      Bruce Morris (D-140) voted in favor; Republicans Terrie Wood, Gail Lavielle and Fred Wilms joined Dem Chris Perone in voting against. Senate votes later today.

  2. Bill

    @Mark Chapman, yes, I had read that, and I appreciate this extra information, but the stunning thing is that Chris Perone said no to his own party bosses and did the right thing. This should be praised and rewarded with future votes at election time. Bob Duff, however, only seems to care about more revenue for those on welfare and bloated union pensions. Not once does he talk about economic competitiveness, although he has to know this is vital as his wife works in the private sector and he sales real estate.

    Perhaps Bob knows his days are numbered in the senate and this will help him land a cushy job on the union payroll “lobbying”. The level of corruption between the public unions and legislators is ridiculous and should be illegal. Soon enough I will have to move to Westchester to avoid paying high CT taxes (never thought I’d have to say that) and commute faster to the new Westchester Headquarters of GE.

    Thanks Bob, you and your buddy Malloy will soon learn you can only tax corporations, middle class, and upper class for so long before they move out of state. I guess you didn’t learn this in real estate class.

  3. Wineshine

    What’s notable is that eight Democrats were “sent home” and did not participate in the vote because their “no” vote would have defeated the budget. Those were the eight “NV”, not voting. How incredibly wrong is that? Some politician gets elected to serve his or her constituents and then caves to their parties wishes over that of the voters. My information comes directly from the House floor, but you’ll read all about it.

  4. Lisa Thomson

    Disgraceful!

  5. Lisa Thomson

    Thank you Chris, Terrie, Fred and Gail!

  6. Bill

    Dump Duff!!!

    Dump Duff in 2016!!!

  7. J Corbett

    After just relocating to the area – we chose CT (and Norwalk specifically) because of the more reasonable taxes (compared to Westchester). Now, we’re rethinking our decision – especially if my husband’s employer leaves CT. I acknowledge the infrastructure needs work and all states are in a tight fiscal crunch right now, but this budget is not the right balance and will hurt the state’s business environment and it’s residents. What’s the point of creating jobs and repairing roads if some of the biggest employers leave the state? The net job creation will be in the negative. Politicians must fix the pension crisis that hurts our children’s and our community’s futures. The cost of living in CT is high and this budget makes it worse. The state is slowly forcing low and middle family income families out. Thank you to the democrats who voted for their constituents on this one.

  8. Joe

    As usual, Connecticut democrats are buying votes and power with our money.

    And sadly, the republicans are just too chicken to even bring the subject up.

    To mention this would be an insult. But these people really need to be insulted in a real debate.

    For starters, $300 Million for nine miles of bus road. That’s $33 Million per mile and tons of votes.

  9. Yankee Clipper

    THANK YOU CHRIS PERONE! A POLITICIAN WITH INTEGRITY

  10. Drew Todd

    How to continue to chase people and business out of the state—See Malloy & Duff Inc!

    Thank you Chris, Terrie, Fred and Gail! For fighting against this Budget! We Thank You!

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