Democratic Budget Deal – An irresponsible farce
The Connecticut General Assembly will return to the state capital today to vote on a “Democratic Budget Deal” that they claim will eliminate this year’s budget deficit by authorizing Governor Dannel Malloy to cut an additional $93 million in unspecified programs and raiding money from a variety of dedicated special funds.
A CT Mirror article written by Keith Phaneuf and entitled, CT deficit plan taps many special funds and one-time sources, pretty much sums of the Democrat’s budget balancing strategy.
One of the most disturbing provisions of the new “Democratic Budget Deal” is that for the third time in three years the Democrats are going to steal the money that has been set-aside to install seatbelts in school buses and use the funds to help balance the state budget.
On December 20, 2012, the Wait, What? headline read; Remember when school bus seatbelts were a big priority?
Following the tragic school bus accident on Route 84 in Hartford in January 2010, a crash that killed a Rocky Hill student who was attending one of the CREC magnet schools, the legislature kicked into action.On May 1st of that year the General Assembly passed what was to become Public Act 10-83.The law created the Connecticut School Bus Seat Belt account, “a separateDemocratic Budget Deal – An irresponsible farce - Wait What?:
