21.   Taxes on the industry also put big money into state coffers.

22.   That money passes through state coffers but Albany lawmakers cannot touch it.

23.   That translated into hundreds of millions of extra dollars for state coffers.

24.   The Democratic governor has, however, already said how he would spend some of the new money rolling into state coffers.

25.   The Department of Revenue is withholding thousands of refunds from early returns until state coffers are refilled, which could be this summer.

26.   The death penalty is such a drain on state coffers that some death penalty proponents now question its use.

27.   The czars regularly provided choice morsels from the state coffers to their supporters.

28.   The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee released a previously undisclosed list of contributions to Democratic state party coffers that it obtained from the Democratic National Committee.

29.   The lax tax collection under military government, combined with international sanctions, drained state coffers, U.S. economists say.

30.   The interest that does accrue on that money as it sits in state coffers winds up in general funds, he said.