Connecticut Tax Plan Gains Votes
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s 51-day-old budget deadlock appeared to be ending Tuesday when three key Democratic state senators threw their support behind a first-ever state income tax.
The three senators, along with 15 others who have previously endorsed an income tax, would provide the 18 votes needed for a tie in the 36-member Senate, which Lt. Gov. Eunice Groark would presumably break by supporting the budget.
Legislative leaders said a vote would be taken as soon as possible and that independent Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who has vetoed three non-income tax measures presented to him, said the budget was “based on fiscal priorities, not politics” and that he would sign it.
The $6.95-billion plan includes an income tax of 4.5% and a reduction of the state sales tax from 8% to between 6% and 6.5%, legislators said.
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