Dan Malloy’s Budget Forces CT Cities To Pick Up The Tab For Failed Policies

With Connecticut facing a massive $1.7 billion budget gap as a result of Dan Malloy and his Democrat allies’ policies, the failed governor is proposing a new budget aimed at solving the issue by forcing municipalities to shoulder the burden of taxing citizens instead of the state government. Malloy’s proposal reduces state aid to municipalities by over $360 million for FY 2018 and over $700 million for the next two fiscal years, a move that will almost certainly force cities and towns to raise property taxes on citizens to make up the difference. Even as he and his allies’ actions created the state’s current budgetary catastrophe, Malloy defended his action saying “people have to manage their budgets.” Malloy proposed his budget the same day that Moody’s Investors Service, a major crediting agency, downgraded Connecticut days after Fitch did the same.

CT Post reports:

“He stressed the need to continue aid to the state’s poorest cities. ‘I don’t run the cities,’ Malloy said when asked whether many municipalities would have to raise property taxes to deal with aid reductions. ‘People have to manage their budgets.’…

‘The new economic reality demands this of us,’ said Malloy, who is still assuming $700-million in concessions from public employee unions, even as layoff notices are being sent out to various bargaining units.”

If Malloy had been listening to those words for the last seven years, perhaps Connecticut wouldn’t be facing such difficult decisions with its fiscal situation. But now, thanks to he and his Democrat enablers’ failed policies, Malloy is trying to make up the difference by moving the tax burden from the state to cities and towns around Connecticut. Unfortunately for the overtaxed people of the state, changing who is taxing them will not give them any of the relief they desperately need from the Democrat’s suffocating tax hikes of the last seven years.

After spending almost two full terms in the governor’s mansion wreaking havoc on Connecticut’s economic and budgetary situation, Dan Malloy is planning on passing the buck to local municipalities as he walks away. Connecticut voters are fed up with the Democrats’ failed leadership and they will hold them accountable in November 2018.