...property shall be uniform, and taxes shall be levied upon such as the legislature shall prescribe. property as the legislature shall prescribe. Taxes...on incomes, privileges and occupations, which taxes nuy be graduated and progressive, and reasonable exemptioiu may be progressive, and reasonable exemptions...

...late day face to face with a controversy as to the precise meaning of the words of our organic law: The rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes shall be levied on such property as the legislature shall prescribe." That language seems plain, this court, as we...

...article and both made reference to property taxation. Pertinent sections read: Art. IX — Finance Sec. 1 . The rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes...levied upon such property as the legislature shall, from time to time, prescribe. Sec. 6. The property of the State and counties, both real and personal,...

...Gilmau ». Sheboygan, 2 Black, 510,. it was held that under a constitutional provision requiring that " the rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes shall...such property as the legislature shall prescribe," it was not competent to provide that a tax for a special improvement should be laid exclusively on...

...state-local relationship. In the Finance Article (VIII), section i, the constitutional framers stated that "the rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes...such property as the legislature shall prescribe." Progressive Democrats considered this provision one of the most important in the constitutional document....

...uniformity structure. Other northwestern states had kept their clauses fairly vague. Wisconsin (1848): "The rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes...such property as the legislature shall prescribe." California (1849): "Taxation shall be equal and uniform . . . All property in the State shall be taxed...

...power shall not exceed that of a judge of the Circuit Court at chambers. ARTICLE VIII. FINANCE. SECTION 1. The rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes...such property as the Legislature shall prescribe. SECTION 2. No money shall be paid out of ihe treasury except In pursuance of an appropriation by law....

...for a graduated ta" on incomes." so that when so amended said section shall read as follows: Section 1. The rule of taxation shall be uniform, and taxes...such property as the legislature shall prescribe; provided, that the legislature may provide for a graduated tax on incomes To calendar. By Mr. Le Roy:...

...Co. v. Taylor County, 52 Wis. 37, 8 NW 833. Section 1 of article 8 of the state Constitution reads : "The rule of taxation shall be uniform and taxes shall...such property as the legislature shall prescribe." This section has been the subject of much litigation and much discussion in this court. In Black v....

...organized as a state. Section 1 of Article VIII of the. state constitution as originally adopted declared: "The rule of taxation shall be uniform and taxes shall...such property as the legislature shall prescribe." This was the only provision contained in the organic law relating to taxation and it is evident from...