Talk:Arizona v. New Mexico

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A fact from Arizona v. New Mexico appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 March 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, in Arizona v. New Mexico, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arizona's attempt to invoke original jurisdiction, but Arizona prevailed when the case returned to the court on appeal?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/March.

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New Mexico privilege tax

A wikilink was added suggesting that a new article "privilege tax" should be created. Although the state statute and Supreme Court opinion described the tax as being for the "privilege of generating electricity", it actually operated similar to a "production tax" since it was based on the amount of electricity generated by an electric generating station, similar to a tax on petroleum or coal extraction (Natural resources consumption tax) which is in units of production. A true privilege tax normally is more like a business license fee imposed for authorization to do something in a state or municipality. Deanlaw (talk) 16:09, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]