Duke v. State ex rel. Shaw

The monies to maintain and operate our public school system, nine State colleges, a University, Departments of Health, Public Welfare, mental and correctional institutions, a retirement system for State employees, to pay principal and interest on monies borrowed, as well as the many other general functions of State government are provided by taxes of the kind and character specified in Ch. 105 of the General Statutes as amended by Ch. 1340, S.L. of 1957. Appropriations for these General Fund purposes exceed for the current fiscal year $200,000,000.

Since 1933 the sales tax, supplemented in…