Revolutionary With Connecticut’s tax revenue continuing to collapse, many elected state officials, starting with Governor Malloy and Republican legislators and now even many Democratic legislators, members of the governor’s own party, are starting to explain: “You can’t spend what you don’t have.”

Since that supposed principle hasn’t stopped the governor and many legislators before, causing them instead to raise taxes, what they really mean is: “We’ve raised taxes by huge amounts twice in the last six years and economic conditions in the state are only worsening, so we shouldn’t do it again — at least not until we’re past the next legislative election, which is only six months away.”