No, this is not a segment on the Daily Show, although it is certainly worthy of what John Stewart and his team of award winning writers come up with.
Let’s take a step back, a deep breath and try this again…
What we do know is that Connecticut is facing a “fiscal problem.”
The Governor proposed, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed a state budget into law.
Now, state revenue is coming in below what was projected.
And state expenditures are higher than what was projected.
Those two developments create a problem. For now let’s call the problem a “gap.”
On November 1, 2012 the Malloy Administration said the gap was $60 million dollars.
