5 Things Connecticut Can Do Instead of Busting the Guardrails

5 Things Connecticut Can Do Instead of Busting the Guardrails

Some politicians want to break Connecticut’s fiscal guardrails to survive “catastrophic” federal funding cuts. But here’s the truth: no one knows when or whether federal cuts will happen — or how big they’ll be. It’s all just a scare tactic to justify a return to the tax-and-spend governance that resulted in big tax increases in 2011, 2015 and 2017 — and to bust the bipartisan guardrails that have brought stability and growth to our state.   In …