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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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"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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Personal Development
"Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile."
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"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round."
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"I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax."
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"One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use."
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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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"I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year."
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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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"Our current tax system is broken."
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Personal Development
"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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"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write."
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"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
Man
"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
Money
"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."
Power
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
Heart
"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
Man
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
Happiness
"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
"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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