Governor Ruby Laffoon faced the challenge of raising state revenue to cover the share matching funds it owed the feds. He did it by: passing a 1-cent sales tax and raising the whiskey tax he never succeeded; state revenue continued to fall adding a 2-cent sales tax reinstating the lottery
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