All sides are wrong in state budget fight

This budget deserved to fail. All sides are wrong. So instead of escalating drama and wasting time in a way that serves no one, use this opportunity to create a budget that is morally, ethically and intellectually sound for our well-being both now and in the future.

If we increase taxes on working and middle classes, comparatively increase them on the wealthy and corporations.

Continue public financing for elections to reduce the potential for corruption, rather than legitimizing and institutionalizing corruption.

Ensure funds for education for our future viability and sustainability. If we increase teacher pension contributions, the increase goes into pension funding and nowhere else.

Restructure public sector union/ labor laws in an open, fair and honest process.

It takes moral courage and insight to find innovative solutions, not partisan group-think agendas that can only repeat the past. Leaders utilize and amplify our common ground as human beings. Escalating competition blocks the leadership and solutions required for governance.

If our local legislators want to do the right thing, they should follow through on their campaign promises to pursue common sense nonpartisan collaboration and leadership. Lucira Jane Nebelung East Lyme