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Halaman 2 - ... and that portion must be determined by the legislature. This vital power may be abused, but the interest, wisdom, and justice of the representative body, and its relations with its constituents, furnish the only security against unjust and excessive taxation, as well as against unwise legislation.
Halaman 3 - ... authorized by section seven of the act of congress known as the vocational rehabilitation act, to an amount not in excess of fifteen per centum of the taxpayer's net income as computed without the benefit of this subdivision. Such contributions or gifts shall be allowable as deductions only if verified under rules and regulations prescribed by the comptroller.
Halaman 8 - ... To the attempt of the states to combine both general and local functions is due the apparently inextricable confusion which has so long characterized our state and municipal governments. Give to state and city separate and distinct powers; make each directly responsible to its special constituency; permit neither to exercise other than direct representative authority: the result will be simple, responsible, efficient government. The state, to the extent that it has exercised arbitrary power over...

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