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Table A-6 Continued
Average
Annual
Change
Change
Change
Recommen
in Top
in Top
1998
in Gas
ded
Personal Corporate Combined
Change Tax Rate,
Tax
Income
Income
Top Income in Sales proposed
Changes
Tax Rate, Tax Rate,
Tax Rates Tax Rate,
and/or
as % of
proposed proposed
(Personal
proposed enacted
Date Prior Year's
and/or
and/or
plus
(cents per
and/or
Spending
enacted
enacted
Corporate)
gallon)
enacted
took
Governor
State
office
through
(% points) (% points)
(*0.5)
(% points)
(*0.5)
William J. Janklow (R)
South Dakota
Jan-95
-1.5%
0
0
0
0
3.0
John G. Rowland (R)
Connecticut
Jan-95
-1.3%
0
-3.0
14.0
0
0
George E. Pataki (R)
New York
Jan-95
-1.3%
-1.025
-0.5
15.85
0
0
Gary E. Johnson (R)
New Mexico
Jan-95
-0.9%
-0.5
0
15.8
0
-6.0
Christine T. Whitman (R)
New Jersey
Jan-94
-0.8%
-0.63
-0.375
15.37
0
7.0
George W. Bush (R)
Texas
Jan-95
-0.9%
0
0
4.5
0
0
David M. Beasley (R)
South Carolina
Jan-95
-1.0%
0
0
12.0
0
0
Gary Locke (D)
Washington
Jan-97
-0.7%
0
0
3.45
0
5.0
Frank O'Bannon (D)
Indiana
Jan-97
-0.4%
0
0
11.3
0
0
John Engler (R)
Michigan
Jan-91
-0.6%
-0.2
-0.05
6.7
2.0
4.0
Jim Geringer (R)
Wyoming
Jan-95
0.0%
0
0
0
1.0
5.0
Tom Ridge (R)
Pennsylvania
Jan-95
-0.1%
0
0
12.79
0
3.5
E. Benjamin Nelson (D)
Nebraska
Jan-91
-0.7%
-0.24
0
14.49
-0.5
-1.9
Fob James Jr. (R)
Alabama
Jan-95
0.0%
0
0
10.0
0
0
Mike Huckabee (R)
Arkansas
Jul-96
-0.8%
0
0
13.5
0.125
0
Bill Graves (R)
Kansas
Jan-95
-1.2%
0
0
13.8
0
0
Philip E. Batt (R)
Idaho
Jan-95
-0.1%
0
0
16.2
0
4.0
Benjamin J. Cayetano (D)
Hawaii
Dec-94
0.1%
-1.5
0
16.4
0.75
0
Parris N. Glendening (D)
Maryland
Jan-95
0.1%
-0.25
0
11.875
0
0
Zell Miller (D)
Georgia
Jan-91
-0.5%
0
0
12.0
0
0
Don Sundquist (R)
Tennessee
Jan-95
0.0%
0
0
6.0
0
0
James B. Hunt Jr. (D)
North Carolina
Jan-93
-0.4%
0
-0.75
15.0
0
0.3
Kirk Fordice (R)
Mississippi
Jan-92
-0.4%
0
0
10.0
0
0
Michael O. Leavitt (R)
Utah
Jan-93
-0.2%
-0.2
0
12.0
-0.25
5.5
Mike Foster (R)
Louisiana
Jan-96
0.0%
0
0
14.0
0
4.0
Bob Miller (D)
Nevada
Jan-89
1.2%
0
0
0
0.75
7.75
Cecil Underwood (R)
West Virginia
Jan-97
0.0%
0
0
15.5
0
0
Paul E. Patton (D)
Kentucky
Dec-95
-0.1%
0
0
14.25
0
0
Tommy G. Thompson (R)
Wisconsin
Jan-87
-0.6%
-1.03
0
14.77
0
7.9
Arne H. Carlson (R)
Minnesota
Jan-91
-0.1%
0.5
0
18.3
0.5
0
Tom Carper (D)
Delaware
Jan-93
-0.6%
-1.3
0
15.6
0
8.0
Jeanne Shaheen (D)
New Hampshire
Jan-97
1.6%
0
0
7.0
0
0
Lincoln Almond (R)
Rhode Island
Jan-95
0.9%
-0.396
0
19.692
-0.5
0
Terry E. Branstad (R)
Iowa
Jan-83
-0.5%
-4.52
0
20.98
2.0
7.0
Angus S. King Jr. (I)
Maine
Jan-95
0.6%
0
0
17.43
0
0
Roy Romer (D)
Colorado
Jan-87
0.0%
1.0
-1.0
10.0
1.0
4.0
Marc Racicot (R)
Montana
Jan-93
1.1%
0
0
17.75
4.0
7.0
Frank Keating (R)
Oklahoma
Jan-95
-0.7%
-0.5
0
13.0
0
0
Pete Wilson (R)
California
Jan-91
0.1%
-1.4
-1.395
18.14
1.25
3.0
Jim Edgar (R)
Illinois
Jan-91
1.3%
1.0
0.4
10.3
0
0
Edward T. Schafer (R)
North Dakota
Dec-92
0.4%
1.204
0
16.044
0
3.0
Howard Dean (D)
Vermont
Aug-91
2.1%
1.754
1.5
19.65
1.0
8.0
John A. Kitzhaber (D)
Oregon
Jan-95
1.9%
0
0
15.6
0
6.0
George V. Voinovich (R)
Ohio
Jan-91
0.8%
0.3
0
16.1
1.0
2.0
Lawton Chiles (D)
Florida
Jan-91
1.5%
0
0
5.5
0
1.2
Mel Carnahan (D)
Missouri
Jan-93
-0.1%
0
1.25
12.25
0
0