possessed plenary powers of taxation. They could tax the property of their citizens in such manner and to such extent as they saw fit.”); id. at 621 (“The founders anticipated that the expenditures of the States, their counties, cities, and towns, would chiefly be met by direct taxation on accumulated property.”); M’Culloch v. State, 17 US 316, 428, 4 L Ed 579 (1819) (“[T]he power of taxing the people and their property is essential to the very existence of government, and may be legitimately exercised * * * to the utmost extent to which the government may chuse to carry it.”); id. (“The people of a State, therefore, give to their government a right of taxing themselves and their property.”); see also Curtis v. Dept. of Rev., 17 OTR 414 (2004), aff'd, 338 Or 579, 112 P3d 330 (2005) (<HOLDING>). “Indeed, Oregon has imposed such a tax from
holding that the contracts clause article i section 10 clause 1 to the united states constitution does not apply to the actions of the federal government holding the exclusion did not violate the equal protection clause of the wyoming constitution or the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution holding that the federal constitution does not require states to permit unlimited absentee voting holding that because the due process clause in the federal constitution is applicable to the states under the fourteenth amendment the right is also guaranteed to defendants pursuant to the identical provision in article i section 5 of the hawaii constitution holding that under the federal constitution the states retained unlimited authority in matters of taxation except where trumped by for instance the commerce clause