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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?"
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Personal Development
"If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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Personal Development
"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."
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Personal Development
"Tax what you burn not what you earn."
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Personal Development
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
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Personal Development
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
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Personal Development
"The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order."
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Personal Development
"Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive."
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"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."
Health
"MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance."
Books
"Taxation without representation is tyranny."
Tax
"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."
God
"My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning."
Time
"Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house."
Language
"I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth."
God
"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own."
Men
"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
Life
"Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed."
Consequence
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