Gov. M. Jodi Rell told a business group that government today is bigger than the taxpayer’s ability to pay for it.
- Rell spoke to the
Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce
- today to discuss the upcoming legislative session and budget.
Rell says that the cost-cutting actions that the legislature took in a special session last month were baby steps. She says what’s needed are major budget cuts and rethinking how government works.
Rell and lawmakers are examining several cost-cutting ideas to close the current fiscal year’s deficit and about $6 billion in shortfalls expected in the next two budget years.
- The governor says she has retained an attorney to start talking to state labor unions sometime this week, seeking ways to cut costs. (AP)
