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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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"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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"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
Home
"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
Fight
"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."
Tax
"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
Jazz
"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
Pretty
"My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to."
Listening
"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."
Holly
"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
People
"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
Experience
"The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with."
Music
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