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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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"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."
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Personal Development
"Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense."
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"In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated."
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"I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business."
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"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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"Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income."
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"If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed."
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"Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive."
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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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"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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"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
Man
"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."
People
"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."
Age
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
Leap
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
Man
"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
Money
"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."
Thought
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
Independence
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
Happiness
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