Who Do You Trust?

Connecticut has a Constitutional requirement to balance the budget. In the last regime, the two highest ever tax increases occurred in order to meet this requirement. Even then, the fuzzy math did not work, and the state ran billion-dollar deficits. You see, a budget does not necessarily mean actual receipts and expenditures. So here we are again, a new regime but made up of the same old Democrat hacks and doing the same fuzzy math.

This time it’s about the tax increase that they thought they could get away with but didn’t. In the insatiable quest for more revenue, the Democrat Governor and Legislature passed an increase in sales tax on “prepared foods”. This was directed at restaurants but gathered up other items as well. They budgeted an unbelievable $110,000,000 more revenue from the ~14% increase in the sales tax (6.35% -7.35%). Now that the department of revenue is executing on the bill as written and demanding the tax on ALL prepared foods, like those sold in grocery stores, all the Democrat perpetrators are crying, “That is not what we meant.”  You really expected $110,000,000 more from eating out?

Add this sneak attack tax to a long list of new and higher fees, fewer items exempted from sales tax and a blind eye to any thought of a reining in spending and you have to ask yourself, “Who do you trust?” This budget will not result in a balance of revenue and spending just like the last how many budgets. The Democrats will spend and add to a growing deficit already in the multiple billions.

Flouting a Constitutional requirement should be a clarion call for electing an administration that follows the law and not one that tries all manner of shenanigans to make it look like they have a bonafide plan for achieving a balance of revenue and expenses. Projecting this process on to the national scene can tell you that Democrats, even when supposedly controlled by a Constitutional plank, will find a way to raise revenue and spend more. There are two ways to balance a budget. The Democrats only know one way, raise revenue.