I thought bait and switch was against the law?
Isn't is interesting the way you frame an issue to the press is the way they will report it.
For instance the 'Hartford Courant' gleefully reported about the new two year budget with no tax increases.
Am I the only  one who is confused.  As we approach the end of the 2007 fiscal year Connecticut has a 1 billion dollar surplus.  Our economically inept Governor Rell has recognized that this is a financial crisis worthy of emergency status and authorized an override of the constitutional spending cap to utilize the surplus to fund more programs.  Let me explain this in  layman's terms.  If your local painter gave you an estimate to paint your house, and the actual cost was less than the estimate, he/she would be legally obligated to issue a refund.  If that contractor kept the money he would be guilty of larceny, and media hound Attorney General Blumenthal would be busy filing suits, writs, and arrest warrants.  However when the state gives an estimate of the tax revenue it needs to meet its budget,  gets more than it needs and then keeps the excess, that's called a no-tax increase budget.
Taxes actually increased $1 billion dollars for the 2007 fiscal year, that's a sizable  increase no matter how you frame it.