Relating to taxationARTICLE 1 - INCOME TAXESReducing individual income tax rates and marriage penalties and modifying the brackets, providing for inflation adjustmentsARTICLE 2 - SALES AND EXCISE TAXESEliminating the accelerated June payment liability for retailers for sales, liquor and tobacco taxes; exempting sales to veterans homes and personal property used in the production of television commercials from the sales tax; repealing the separate sales tax refund provision for capital equipment ARTICLE 3 - PASSENGER AUTOMOBILE REGISTRATION TAXImposing a flat motor vehicle registration tax on passenger automobiles after initial registration; appropriating certain specified amounts from the general fund to the trunk highway, county state aid highway, municipal state aid street fund and the flexible highway and the town road and town bridge accountsARTICLE 4 - AGRICULTURAL ASSISTANCE AND STATE AID REFORMProviding for certain payments to farmers in 1999 for assistance purposes, specifying certain qualification requirements and providing for payment, appropriating money to the commissioner of revenue for the assistance; eliminating certain state payments or appropriations for certain tax or aid programs and requiring the commissioner of finance to transfer amounts saved to a newly created transitional aid reform account(ra)