31.   A number of cities and counties had not increased taxes at the rate allowed by state law, reckoning they could push them up later.

32.   A plan to increase taxes on stock options was also rejected.

33.   A vote to increase taxes is a powerful election-year TV spot.

34.   After years of unchecked development, done largely to expand local tax bases, local officials are finding that such growth is increasing taxes and causing overcrowding.

35.   Both exacerbated the growing concern of Americans that the Clinton plan would create an expensive new bureaucracy that would take away their current benefits and increase their taxes.

36.   Brushing aside predictions of a taxpayer backlash, the House rejected a proposed constitutional amendment Monday that would have made it more difficult for Congress to increase taxes.

37.   Bradley has acknowledged that he might have to increase taxes to pay for his plan.

38.   Bush has promised not to increase payroll taxes and to preserve existing benefits for those who have already retired or are near retirement.

39.   But Clinton would offset those cuts by increasing other taxes, mostly on corporations.

40.   But in a new commercial, Carr has painted Abraham as an elitist for his opposition to the Clinton economic plan, which increased taxes on the wealthy.