They have rejected several taxes proposed by Mr. Cuomo, including a 10-cent-a-gallon increase in the gasoline tax, but have not agreed on alternative measures.

It endorses them all and rejects higher taxes.

But a week later, North Dakotans rejected higher taxes for education.

The Patriot faction came to reject taxes imposed by legislatures in which the tax-payer was not represented.

Public opinion polls have continued to show that St. Charles County's citizens would reject taxes for public transit.

The task before the state's elected officials, particularly the Governor, is to educate the public about what taxes will buy, and what rejecting taxes will cost.

He continued to reject new taxes - except for a cigarette tax - and said he would welcome other ideas from the public, elected officials, even journalists.

One message Alabama voters needed to hear more clearly was that rejecting higher taxes costs more in the long run.

We must thus forcefully reject increased taxes, European taxes and in particular the proposed Tobin taxes.

They approved $37 billion in borrowing through bond acts for highways, housing, schools and levees, but rejected taxes on cigarettes and oil production.