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Show , Don't Limit Press Freedom Every company doing i business in America is required 1 1 to pay taxes to do their share of ', ' financing government opera- tions. But after those normal ; j business taxes are paid, the I; Constitution specifies that no 1', I ; taxes can be levied upon the 1 ! press which will limit the l ; distribution of news. J j; The U.S. Supreme Court !; !; declared unconstitutional a '! Louisiana tax in 1934 because: j ! I "It is measured alone by the ex- J ! I tent of the circulation of the ; publication in which the adver- ; tisements are carried with the 1 1 ; plain purpose of penalizing the '. ', ; publisher and curtailing the cir- ; '', culation of a selected group of newspapers." ', ' |