Connecticut GOP offers state budget alternative

By Susan Haigh

Published April 18, 2014 4:00am ET

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Connecticut GOP offers state budget alternative — Connecticut state Senate Minority Leader and gubernatorial hopeful John McKinney, R-Fairfield, enters the House Chamber before Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivers his 2014 State of the State address in front of a joint session of the legislature in the House Chambers at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) | Stephan Savoia

HARTFORD, Conn. — Minority Republicans in the Connecticut General Assembly on Thursday offered an alternative $18.9 billion state budget that scraps the governor’s proposed $55 tax rebate, ends the state’s earned income tax credit program for the working poor and doesn’t include what the GOP calls Democratic “gimmicks.”

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