Opinion: Respect, protect constitutional spending cap

Brian Flaherty is senior vice president for public policy at the Connecticut Business & Industry Association.

Connecticut’s modern constitution and I both turn 50 this year. In all, it has been a pretty good run. And while I certainly can’t claim as storied a lineage as our founding document — which dates to the Fundamental Orders in 1638 — we’ve struck up a relationship over the years.

I first swore to support it when we were 23 on my first day in the General Assembly. When we turned 26, I cosponsored the legislation to amend it with a spending cap. A year later, I joined the 81 percent of the state’s voters who adopted it.

While nothing from my twenties fits me, the cap still fits, and the constitution wears it well at 50.

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