Contributing op-ed columnist Terry Cowgill lives in Lakeville, blogs at ctdevilsadvocate.com and is news editor of The Berkshire Record in Great Barrington, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @terrycowgill.
In a late-spring ritual that has become all too familiar, lawmakers in Hartford scramble under deadline to craft a presentable budget to satisfy constituencies that want the state to spend more money, while not imposing sticker shock on those who have to pay for it.
This time taxpayers lost out, thanks to a midnight deal struck last Sunday between General Assembly Democrats and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy that calls for a variety of new taxes — about $2 billion worth — to fund a budget of more than $40 billion over the next two years.
With some revisions and after exhaustive debate, the package was passed narrowly, without Republican input, on Wednesday by both houses near the close of the session.
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