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"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."
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"Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes."

"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
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"It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?"

"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."

"I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations."

"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."

"Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one."

"Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax."

"I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax."
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"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."

"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."

"Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words."

"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."

"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."

"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."

"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."

"It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night."
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