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...holiday disruption caused by the state's fiscal crisis turned out to be mercifully brief. Three Connecticut companies chipped in $43,000 to keep Hammonasset and two other state beaches open through the weekend. But how soon state employees will return to work depends on how quickly Governor Lowell Weicker can hammer out his differences with the legislature over his plan to create a state income...
Imposing income taxes in a state that has shunned them for more than two centuries would be a daunting political challenge for any Governor. It is especially difficult for Weicker because he has so few cards to play. One of two Governors elected last November as independents (the other is Walter Hickel of Alaska), Weicker does not have many allies among either the Democrats who control the legislature or the Republicans from whose ranks he defected last year...
...Weicker, who earned a reputation as a stubborn and short-tempered maverick during three terms in the U.S. Senate, the solution was obvious: cut the sales levy and impose a 6% income tax. Addressing the legislature in February, Weicker argued that without tax reform, "our Connecticut, as we envision it, would slip away." But the lack of party ties that made it possible for Weicker to conceive a tax that neither Democrats nor Republicans would propose doomed the idea. With no partisan motive for aiding Weicker, the leaders of both parties helped defeat his plan last month...
...hours later, it was voted down in the state senate. Instead, the legislature tried to extend the sales tax to everything from haircuts to boat-slip rentals. Declaring that "it's up to me to harbor the resources of the state as best I can," Weicker vetoed the legislature's budget and suspended nonessential services...
Adultery may still be a sin in Connecticut, but it's no longer a crime. Last week Governor Lowell Weicker signed legislation repealing the state's 18th century law that made it a crime for a married man or woman to have sexual intercourse outside of marriage...