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Show STATES FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS Among other forms of tax reduction, reduc-tion, there is a strong movement for repeal of all federal estate and inheritance in-heritance taxes on the ground that the states need all the revenue which they yield. A tax on capital or estates is only justified by the necessities of war and in times of peace should be abolished as rapidly as possible. The states are fighting for their existence and their political rights on the subject of taxation as conceived conceiv-ed by the founders of our government This was shown in the refusal to give Congress power to enact labor laws and allow the states to provide protection for .children ad families in this field. The movement of the states to assert as-sert their rights against double taxation tax-ation in any form is a protest against all new federal powers of taxation. In asserting their rights in this matter mat-ter in peace times, the states are only saying that accumulated capital shall not be dissipated an.d shattered by federal interference. By the same token, tha states are repeating Webster's dictum that "the power to tax is the power to destroy" and unless a check is placiid upon the Congress and the bureaus which it creates, the state governments will be reduced to unimportarrfc administrative adminis-trative units. |