A Risky Proposal to Divert Connecticut’s Surplus

A Risky Proposal to Divert Connecticut’s Surplus

Connecticut’s budget surplus presents a critical choice: use the one-time windfall to address the state’s deep-rooted financial problems or spend it on new, permanent government programs. Progressive activists are pushing for the latter, urging lawmakers to create an “emergency safeguard account” to divert these funds. This proposal, however, risks undoing years of fiscal progress and locking the state into unsustainable spending.  The Connectic…