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"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."
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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."
"If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed."
"Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before."
"In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations."
"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."
"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round."
"I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that."
"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"
"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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"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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