"The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits."
— Taxation

January 1, 1970

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., dissenting, Panhandle Oil Company v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox, Attorney General, 277 U.S. 223 (1928).