Governor Malloy – A politician who simply cannot tell the truth
Monday, October 18, 2015,
Standing outside his state Capitol office Monday, Malloy said there’s been a significant downturn on Wall Street, and personal income is not rising as fast as expected. That’s why his budget office was expected to report that even after $103 million in emergency budget cuts last month, the state is running a $118.4 million deficit, only four months into the new fiscal year. A majority of the deficit is attributed to the $109 million drop in personal income taxes. – CT Newsjunkie
NOTE: The $118.4 million deficit COMES AFTER the destructive and callous $103 million in cuts that Malloy announced a month ago – cuts that will reduce a variety of vital services including to those for people with developmental disabilities and mental health problems, as well as, reductions that will domino into almost $190 million in cuts in state and federal funds to Connecticut’s hospitals.
- When Governor Malloy signed the new state budget into law in June, the Malloy administration claimed the state budget was balanced with no deficit in sight.
- In July, at the start of the fiscal year, the Malloy administration claimed the Connecticut State Budget was balanced with no deficit in sight.
- In August the Malloy administration claimed the Connecticut State Budget was balanced with no deficit in sight.
- Even as late as the first week of September, the Malloy administration said the State Governor Malloy – A politician who simply cannot tell the truth - Wait What?:
