And even with all that, the governor still wants an immediate hike in state sales taxes.

She also wants, for the first time ever, to have Arizona tax labor costs for repairs on everything from automobiles to home appliances to support a $9.2 billion spending plan next year. Now customers pay tax only on the portion of the bill that covers parts.

Of note is Brewer's demand that lawmakers enact the tax hikes themselves so retailers can start collecting the extra one-cent levy on the state's 5.6 percent sales tax March 1.

That is designed to help plug the current $1.4 billion hole in the current budget as well as finance next year's spending. Other proposals to fix this year's budget include selling off and leasing another $300 million in state buildings on top of the $735 million just sold, and delaying payment of another $300 million to public schools and $100 million to universities.

Enacting an immediate tax hike, however, requires a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate. But Brewer could not even convince a simple majority of senators to support just sending the issue to the ballot.

But gubernatorial press aide Paul Senseman said Brewer thinks they might now be convinced otherwise.

"I think the reality and increasing severity of our state budget deficit and its problems will convince many folks of the necessity of decisive and courageous actions on the state budget plan," he said.

And Senseman said if lawmakers don't go along, reductions to state programs will be even worse.

Brewer is giving up one source of revenue: John Arnold, her budget director, said the governor will not renew the state's two-year contract with Reflex Traffic Systems to operate fixed and mobile photo radar cameras throughout the state when it expires this summer.

That contract will net the state about $26 million this year and could generate up to $40 million if renewed.

"The governor's been clear ... that she doesn't like it," he said. But Arnold said Brewer would restore the program if voters agree to do that in November.

Brewer's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year does not cut basic aid to universities, community colleges or public schools. That, however, is only because she cannot: Once the state took federal stimulus funds for education, it committed not to slash funding below 2006 levels.

But that doesn't stop her from eliminating state funding for full-day kindergarten to save $218 million.

The state still would pay for half-day programs, as it did before 2006. And Arnold said local schools that want full-day programs are free to do what they did until then: pay for it with local funds or charge parents.

And federal law does not keep Brewer from taking another $180 million from "soft capital" allocations that cover everything from books and computers to school buses.

But even keeping basic funding the same still has an effect, reducing what schools get on a per-pupil basis. For K-12, the figure for the coming year will be about $3,370; it was close to $4,000 two years ago.

Maintaining the same level of support for universities will cut per-student funding to $7,100, versus $9,480 during the 2007-2008 school year.

That isn't the only shift in spending Brewer wants to balance the state's books.

Most significant is her plan to eliminate the state Department of Juvenile Corrections. That would require each county to house and pay for youngsters detained by judges.

Arnold said the decision was not solely to save money.

"The national movement is to decentralize the holding of juveniles," he said. "They do better when they're kept in their local communities."

Brewer, however, does not intend to give any of the $63 million to counties the state will save by closing the facilities and laying off 980 workers.

The governor also wants to cut the share of lottery proceeds that now helps local governments with transportation needs and reduce tourism funding. And she wants counties to pay the full costs of housing sexually violent predators from their communities in the state hospital rather than the current 25 percent share.

Brewer also wants lawmakers to repeal laws requiring the state provide comprehensive care for about 17,400 seriously mentally ill, instead funding only crisis intervention programs and medications.

Some of what the governor wants would need voter approval.

That includes her previously announced desire to scale back the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state's Medicaid program, to cover only what is required by federal law plus what can be financed by the revenues from the state's share of a settlement of a lawsuit against tobacco companies plus money coming from tobacco taxes. Arnold figures repealing the 2000 voter-approved mandate would shrink the rolls of about 1.2 million would shrink by about 310,500.

She also would need permission to repeal a requirement that the state set aside $20 million each year for open space preservation and take the $124 million now sitting in that account.