The change is expected to add $200 million to the state coffers in 1998.
She said, "There are more revenues coming into the state coffers today because tax cuts work."
But they said the main goal would be to provide relief to badly strained state coffers.
There have also been allegations that not all the oil revenues were finding their way into the state coffers.
The sale would put $400 million of turnpike money into state coffers.
That is when 40 percent of tax revenues usually come into state coffers.
In the past, oil revenues routinely disappeared from state coffers.
There may be some money coming into state coffers next year that no one is accounting for.
This year, with a windfall from Federal tax reform in the state coffers, it seemed the right time for a change.
They also said funds should be increased for preventive and family medicine, with some of the money coming from general state coffers.