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William Cobbett

"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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"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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"Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases."

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"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

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"The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations."

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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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"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."

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"The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes."

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"Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year."

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"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."

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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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"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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"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."
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"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
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"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
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"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
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"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
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"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write."
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