After three years during which the state exhausted most of its fiscal tricks and one-time revenue enhancers, the negotiations are likely to be brutal.

By the early 1980s, many issuers introduced the concept of the annual fee as yet another revenue enhancer.

His reliance on one-time revenue enhancers to balance the city's budget raised skepticism among bond agencies.

I think he'll swallow hard and we'll get some revenue enhancers.

But he refused to call them taxes, insisting on the term "revenue enhancers."

Those first laws were revenue enhancers, "a way of taxing the rich, at a time when only very wealthy people had cars," Mr. McShane said.

But they are not likely to play dumb for a revenue enhancer as obvious as a value-added tax or an income tax surcharge.

A tax by any other name - licensing fee, revenue enhancer, excise - would yield revenue just as sweet.

And unlimited fun appears to be leashed to unlimited revenue enhancers.

Would he use "revenue enhancers"?