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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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"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."
"New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut."
"The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden."
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."
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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."
"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."
"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?"
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"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."
"Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words."
"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
"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."
"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of 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."
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
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