(AP) — Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to eliminate the state’s individual income tax and authorize more state sales taxes. Amendment 5 would have directed the Legislature to phase out the individual income tax as state revenue grows. The Missouri measure marks the first time since the modern income tax began over a century ago that a U.S. state legislature has asked voters whether to eliminate the tax. Alaska is the only state so far to impose a general individual income tax and then repeal it, doing so in 1980 by a legislative vote. Massachusetts voters rejected income tax eliminations in 2008 and 2002 that were initiated by citizens, not lawmakers.