...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...

...from any taxation at all, such as churches, libraries and the property of charitable institutions. It may impose different specific taxes upon different...man,ner; it may tax visible property only, and not tax secniitiea for payment of money; it may allow deductions for indebtedness or not allow them. All such...

...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...

...from any taxation at all, such as churches, libraries and the property of charitable institutions. It may impose different specific taxes upon different...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...

...in devising their fiscal systems to ensure revenue and foster their local interests . . . 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...

...from any taxation at all, such as churches, libraries, and the property of charitable institutions. It may impose different specific taxes upon different...allow deductions for indebtedness or not allow them. Such was the reasoning in Bells' Gap Railroad Company and Pennsylvania.29 A very interesting case in...

...property from taxation at all, such as churches, libraries, and tbe property of charitable institutions. It may impose different specific taxes upon different...allow deductions for indebtedness, or not allow them. . . . We think that we are safe in saving, that the Fourteenth Amendment was not intended to compel...