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"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."
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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."
"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."
"Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings."
"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."
"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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"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."
"An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt."
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"The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit."
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
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