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 | | Thus, Congress was centrally concerned with railroads' vulnerability to burdensome overvaluation of their property, an evil that Congress specifically identified as one form of prohibited discrimination (H.R. Rep. 94-725, supra, at 113). |
 | | The task of accommodating state interests is, within the terms set by the Constitution, one for Congress, not for the courts, and Congress enacted into law a deliberately unusual although constitutionally valid balance of federal and state interests, a balance that differs from that prevalent in the field of state taxation generally. |
 | | Thus, if a state overvalues railroad property but also overvalues non-railroad property to a similar extent, there is no unlawful discrimination. |
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