… and start stressing out about the state’s.
Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s office is encouraging taxpayers take advantage of a new budget forum on her website. The Governor said the forum will allow the public to follow work on the new, two-year state fiscal plan she and the legislature need to craft and approve in early 2009.
Taxpayers can also weigh-in on how to make state government, which is facing $1 billion deficits in the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years, more efficient.
“We welcome scrutiny. We welcome ideas,” Rell said. “This is not my budget, not the legislature’s. It belongs to the taxpayers of Connecticut who have a right to be part of the process and, most importantly, the solution.”
Suggestions are limited to 500 words or less, allowing for detailed suggestions or the phrase “do not raise my taxes” to be typed 100 times.
