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James Otis

"Taxation without representation is tyranny."

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"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."

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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."

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"Tax cuts are an investment in working families."

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"Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction."

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"Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings."

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"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."

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"For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded."

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"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."

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"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."

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"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
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"A man is accountable to no person for his doings."
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"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own."
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"I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject."
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