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tax and the alcoholic beverages tax, these were not
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merit system positions in the earlier stages. They were
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created, put in the merit system about '49 or '50, and
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since that time, of course, the appointments have been
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made as a result of examinations. The problem today is
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not to get persons who are Democrats or Republicans but
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to get persons, period. I mean, we have something like
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80-some vacancies in the Department right now simply
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because the economics of the situation -- economics and
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other factors, for example, the shortage of qualified
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people in virtually any field, professional or quasi-
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professional. You can't get qualified accountants today.
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MR. ENEY: Let me make my question more pointed
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I was in the Attorney General's Office in '38 and '39. I
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wrote the '39 income tax, which was after the temporary
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copy of the Kentucky statute. I have always had in
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mind, and it was certainly ray notion at that time, that
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thp. reason why the income tax was put in the Comptroller's
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Office was that we had a Republican Governor, and a
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Democratic Comptroller, and this, of course, may have
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been for the very reason you mentioned.
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