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special tax treatment at the results. The question of
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classifying property or classifying users is the thing
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that has caused trouble. It is all right to say that
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every blind man is going to get $6,000 of exemption, but
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it is in ray way of thinking an inequitable thing for the
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other completely disabled person not to have the results
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of such exemptions. I think that if one were to state a
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principle of equity, not merely uniformity by classificatic
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but a principle of equity, of the result, that this would
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have a salutary effect.
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Now, you cannot do it in all cases, but I think
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we have some real good examples of the kind of things I'm
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getting at. The blind one is an example where apparent
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uniformity does not result in equity. There are other
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cases where particular types of property are subject to
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taxation under State law if they are owned by particular
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or used for particular purposes, but those very same types
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of property in the hands of other owners are used by other
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persons for other purposes and are not subject to taxation
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For example, the taxation of nuclear research
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and development facilities; somebody felt, and probably it
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