...schemes of state taxation. The ALLIED STORES OF OHIO v. BOWERS. 527 522 Opinion of the Court. State may impose different specific taxes upon different trades and professions and may vary the rate of excise upon various products. It is not required to resort to close distinctions or to maintain...

...taxes, and may, as Mr. Justice Bradley said in Ball's Gap R. Co. v. Pennsylvania (134 US 332, 337), "exempt certain classes of property from any taxation...charitable institutions. It may impose different specific taxesupon different trades and professions, and may vary the rates of excise upon various products...

...339, 35 L. ed. 1035, it was held that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution did not prevent the state from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways, nor the classification of property for taxation. That the Missouri statute, imposing a tax upon the...

...any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all...libraries and the property of charitable institutions." Indeed, the Court seems always to have viewed attacks upon the constitutionality of the exemptions...

...any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all...libraries and the property of charitable institutions." Indeed, the Court seems always to have viewed attacks upon the constitutionality of the exemptions...

...Company v. Pennsylvania , 134 US 232 (1890): [The equal protection clause] was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting its system of taxation in all...libraries and the property of charitable institutions We think we are safe in saying that the Fourteenth Amendment was not intended to compel the state to...

...the flexibility and variety that are appropriate to reasonable schemes of state taxation. The State may impose different specific taxes upon different trades and professions and may vary the rate of excise upon various products. It is not required to resort to close distinctions or to maintain...

...any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all...trades and professions, and may vary the rates of exercise United States vs. Lint. upon various products ; it may tax real estate and personal property...

...on individuals). State legislatures and Congress have wide discretion in the laying of their taxes, may impose different specific taxes upon different trades and professions and may vary the rate of excise upon various products, so long as the classifications bear a rational relationship to...

...any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a state from adjusting its system of taxation In all...may vary the rates of excise upon various products; U may tax real estate and personal property in (189 NTS) a different manner ; It may tax visible property...