Beshear details cuts, tax hike
FRANKFORT . Gov. Steve Beshear wants to raise the state cigarette tax from 30 cents to $1 a pack and put state workers on three days of unpaid leave to tackle a $456.1 million budget shortfall. His plan also includes implementing 4 percent budget cuts in most state agencies and the legislative and judicial branches, diverting surplus coal severance tax proceeds and draining the state’s
