Officials balk at new taxes in upcoming election year

Monday, December 24, 2001

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Even as he announced another round of state budget cuts and predicted further economic gloom and doom in the months ahead, Gov. Bob Holden was loath to utter the dreaded T- word.

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