By 1929, corporate fees and taxes provided 42.5 percent of state income.
Value added taxes provide an estimated 20 percent of worldwide tax revenue and have been adopted by more than 140 countries.
The tax provided very little income to the state, and most government activity was funded through public land sale for the first decade.
The judge also suggested a pay increase for teachers, saying the new taxes would provide funds to permit such an action by the school board.
The new taxes proposed by the Governor today would provide little in the way of immediate revenues for the state.
Sure We should all spend more to insure that children get the best education our taxes can provide.
The sales and corporate taxes together provide more than 50 percent of the state's revenues.
A flat tax with few or no deductions would have provided the simplest system.
The tax last year provided about $2.6 billion of the state's $9 billion budget.
The second tax, based on the number of subscribers in an insurance plan, would provide money for training programs at teaching hospitals.