Wall Street Journal editorial praises Lamont’s “break from the progressive pack” with tax cut proposal. 

Governor Ned Lamont enjoys praise from the Wall Street Journal for sticking with his income tax cut proposal. The Monday editorial–which has boosted the Greenwich Democrat through most of his tenure–notes Lamont’s “break from the progressive pack” that dominates much legislative business.

The Journal piece points out that Lamont’s plan to reduce the income tax from 5% to 4.5% on households earning between $20,000 and $100,000 a year. The governor mounted a fightback against the gutting of his tax cut by the legislature’s tax committee in secret negotiations with legislative leaders last week.  

House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora earns a hat tip for using the Lamont tax proposal as the basis for his caucus’s budget proposal.

The Journal has for decades expressed distress at the decline of vibrant state economies and flight of talent from the New York metropolitan region. It is high praise for the paper’s influential editorial board to note that “Mr. Lamont deserves credit for trying to reverse Connecticut’s tax-and-spend ratchet.”

The legislature concludes its long regular session Wednesday.

Published June 5, 2023.