First featured on our Nickels and Dimes: Connecticut’s Taxes pamphlet, this growth of state government graph over the last four decades highlights how spending has dramatically outpaced median income growth and population growth over the same time period.
This chart is perhaps Yankee’s most popular item provided to the public at the current time. Candidates for public office, members of the media, and many other regular citizens call, e-mail, or write to request copies of the graph all the time.