41. In a potentially significant blow to the fast-food industry, a German court has given cities and towns the right to levy taxes on disposable containers. 42. In effect, the lawyers are becoming joint business partners with the states and the tobacco companies in levying a tax on smokers. 43. In addition to bringing wrestling under state regulation, the Oliveira bill would levy a tax on closed-circuit telecasts of boxing and wrestling events. 44. Incidentally, the tax was not levied solely to shore up the police department. 45. In those cases, we permitted a judgment creditor to mandamus county officials to force them to levy a tax for payment of an existing judgment. 46. It also would have levied a tax on nuclear power, the least carbon-intensive major source of electricity. 47. It has levied taxes on bank deposits and cut deposit interest rates. 48. It will shift the cost of essential services to cities and counties and require them to levy new taxes to pay for them. 49. Its central philosophy was that taxes should be levied to raise money, not to achieve social or economic purposes. 50. It would also have levied a tax on nuclear power, the least carbon-intensive major source of electricity. |