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Thursday, July 23, 1987/The Battalion/Page 3 State and Local ^ Bullock certifies hike in tax will balance state budget ; amba: rt y wasf :ie BaiiJ pinon. Is, fort leon ' n g Edi 'Valdo' ind ral drill “Twist “God gs wedi; lecidfd a paper icsand ■ preter; aanagfi >eforeri i, few | ming’s iba"l 'ad wliti »ut“Laj iconet ioonditl e inwiij :ulous,r La Bairi about i: N. get “La Maybe: canerj tide fro: roftlie 1 "ackaltj lano^ lism bribe AUS TIN (AP) — State Comptroller Bob Bullock cet - ified Wednesday that the largest tax increase in any late’s history will balance the S38.3 billion 1988-89 )udget that lawmakers passed just before theit special ession expired. Bullock put his signature on the certification about 12 hours alter Gov. Bill Clements, who ran last year on a no-new-taxes promise, signed into law what an expert aid is the largest tax package in any slate’s history. “1 reluctantly signed them,” (dements said. “I cer amic am not happy about them. Thev are higher than I would have liked. They’re higher than other people, niter leaders in the Legislature, would have liked. But I also want to quickly add that we did what we had to do.” An economist for the National Conference of State ■Legislatures said the So.7 billion Texas tax hike is a na- tional record. ■ “In a nutshell, you can say in absolute dollars, if you don’t take inflation into account and if you don’t take the size of the state into account, it is the biggest,” Steve Gold of Denver said. I he budget battle, ignited in February 198b when Bullock predicted a growing state deficit as a result of falling oil prices, ended Tuesday night after a hotly par tisan battle in the Texas House. It took a complicated series of procedural maneuvers to get the plan ap proved. Rep. Dan Morales, D-San Antonio and tax-bill spon sor, said, “I am persuaded that the citizens of our stale will be more than happy to pay an increased three-quar ters of a cent on the sales tax. And I’m persuaded that the professionals will pav an increased SI 10 for their fees with a smile on theit face. I don’t think we overbur dened any particular section of the economy .” The comptroller’s staff Wednesday prepared charts showing that even with the tax increase, Texans face a tax burden that is far below the national average. The increase means Texans’ annual tax load will be S53.76 per S 1,000 in personal income. That is an in crease of SB.3b per year. The national average is S7T 1 1 pet year. Calculated on a per-person basis, Texans will pay S730 a year in state taxes, up from S()b7 in 1986 and be low the national average of S973. (dements said it adds up to relatively little. “I think the people of Texas will understand that we had to balance the budget and that we have stopped the growth of government,” said the Republican governor who had vowed to veto any tax increase above the S2.9 billion that would have been raised by keeping the sales tax at 5!/i percent and the fuels tax at 15 cents per gal lon. As of Oct. 1, Texans will pay a 6 pet cent state sales ax. The current 5'/i rate had been scheduled to roll jack to 4’/s percent on Sept. 1. Many Texans also pay 2 percent in city and mass transit sales taxes. Under the tax bill, the increased sales tax also will be collected on 17 services that had been exempt, such as garbage collection, janitorial services and exterminat ing. TDC guards question labor heads about risks of contracting AIDS HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Prison ^employees are swamping labor union representatives with questions jabout inmates exposing them to jAIDS, a union spokesman said. Three Texas Department of Cor- Irections workers were spattered with |AlDS-contaminated blood while in- Itervening in an attempted suicide, land a fourth guard was spattered Lwith urine by the prisoner in a sepa- frate incident, officials said. “They are upset about the whole ( thing, and they feel the TDC doesn’t Scare about them,” Texas State Ern- iployees Union spokesman Jerry [Taylor said. “And tney’re right.” The union is calling for AIDS screening of all inmates entering the TDC. Such testing, however, has been criticized as too costly and inef fective by prison medical personnel. Taylor also objected to placing in the general population those in mates who tested positive for the AIDS virus, even though they may not have AIDS itself. Dr. Michael Warren, interim medical director of the prison sys tem, said, “Those that come in con tact with the disease should be . . . concerned. It’s a disease for which there is no cure.” But Warren questioned the recent i apprel workers afraid of catching acquired immune deficiency syndrome. “No one needs to be scared and the one thing we have to avoid is panic,” he said Tuesday. Since 1984, when the prison sys tem started to track AIDS cases, 16 men and one woman have died of the disease. The most recent death occurred on Sunday. In the past three years, prison doctors have tested 1,050 inmates for AIDS, TDC spokesman David Nunnelee said. Of those, 166 inmates tested posi tive for AIDS or the AIDS-related syndrome. W 75* HO50 « PITCHER OF BEER 6 Daily Lunch Specials Served with Chips & Hot Sauce FREE TACO BAR 10 PM to ll Pm (One Hour) MTV & Sports in Aggie Room Approved Checks-Credit Cards 3109 Texas Ave., Bryan 823-7470 T. Chimney Hill Bowling Center 260-9184 Moon Lite Open Bowling ‘Happy Hour Prices”^ ^ Bar Specials Eveiynight Open Bowling Day & Night ¥ + Petal Patch % FLORIST TEXAS-DOZEN YELLOW ROSES (15 Roses!) 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