JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the question of a State's power to impose a special tax on the press and, by enacting exemptions, to limit its effect to only a few newspapers.
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Since 1967, Minnesota has imposed a sales tax on most sales of goods for a price in excess of a nominal sum.
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