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State pledge to share sales tax receipts with towns still goes unfulfilled; bait-and-switch?

From left, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities Executive Director Joe DeLong, Council of Small Towns Executive Director Betsy Gara, and former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. (CTMirror.org)
For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics.
And for the Democratic state legislators who won re-election after making that pledge the promise is something they’d like to forget.
That’s because the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account, the mechanism through which municipalities would receive a portion of the state sales tax, also has become a recurring pain in the legislature’s side. ....

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A pledge to share sales tax receipts with towns still goes unfulfilled. Was it a case of fiscal bait-and-switch?

For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics.

And for the Democratic state legislators who won re-election after making that pledge the promise is something they’d like to forget.

That’s because the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account, the mechanism through which municipalities would receive a portion of the state sales tax, also become a recurring pain in the legislature’s side. ....

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6 years later, pledge to share sales tax receipts with CT towns still unfulfilled

6 years later, the pledge to share sales tax receipts with CT towns is still unfulfilled
Keith M. Phaneuf, CTMirror.org
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Joe DeLong, executive director of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalitiesfile photo
For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics.
And for the Democratic state legislators who won re-election after making that pledge the promise is something they’d like to forget.
That’s because the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account, the mechanism through which municipalities would receive a portion of the state sales tax, also become a recurring pain in the legislature’s side. ....

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For some municipal leaders, the state legislature s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of ....

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6 years later, pledge to share sales tax receipts with CT towns still unfulfilled

6 years later, pledge to share sales tax receipts with CT towns still unfulfilled
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