I have a better idea. Have the State of Connecticut act like providing legal assistance to those that can't afford it is a matter of policy not charity. At least for the next two year period, while the country is in the deepest recession since the 1930's, allocate the funds necessary to maintain all legal aid organizations at their 2008 budget levels. Raise the funds – and the funds to avoid similar budget cuts that will devastate working and poor people in Connecticut – by shifting the tax burden to the rich and corporations.

Yes, it goes against every ounce of political wisdom that the corporate-owned media and the corporate bought-and-paid-for politicians have to dispense. But considering that right now there is not a single "sacrifice" that is being discussed in the next budget that doesn't fall 100 times harder on the working class than it does on the rich, I can't think of a single good reason why the rich shouldn't have to pay their share.