To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: The Day’s editorial page editor allowed Republican lawmakers 11 days to come up with a $40 billion budget response to the tax and spending plan laid out by Gov. Malloy Feb. 8. It took the Malloy’s bureaucratic budget experts presumably all fall and into the winter to create a universally disliked proposal – most Democrats not living in Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport don’t support it either – that shovels much of the state’s looming $3.6 billion deficit onto to towns and cities and builds in concessions from state employees.