“ Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. ”
- Merle Shan- Copy
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“ Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents. ”
- Peg Bracken- Copy
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“ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. ”
- Jean Baptiste Colbert- Copy
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“ I think of the garden after the rain; and hope to my heart comes singing, "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!". ”
- Edna Dean Procter- Copy
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“ The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ We are the only team to start the season with 21 losses, so we are not going to be off the hook. ”
- Frank Robinson- Copy
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“ More important than the wins and losses was by the end of the year they had come together as a team. We became closer as a group and I think that's something the seniors will leave. ”
- Mark Duffy- Copy
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“ The chief difficulty of cutting down the expenses of government is that so many of the expenses can vote. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
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“ No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain. ”
- Randolph Churchill- Copy
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“ Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it. ”
- Vivien Kellems- Copy
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“ Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation. ”
- Saul Landau- Copy
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“ The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try. ”
- Gordon Sumner- Copy
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“ There is nothing free or fabulous about these bogus offers,... These 'discount vacation packages' often cost consumers more than airfare, hotel and fees would cost them separately. ”
- Mark Pryor- Copy
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“ Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ Roth IRA funds come from after-tax money,... The change wouldn't cause a budget loss in the short-term, which would please those concerned about the deficit. ”
- Chris Edwards- Copy
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“ John Kerry's campaign attacks on gas prices ignore the reality of Kerry's long record of supporting higher gas prices and blocking the president's comprehensive energy plan. ”
- Steve Schmidt- Copy
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“ As if Hoosiers' budgets weren't being stretched enough to pay for record gas prices, Mitch Daniels is trying to pile new taxes on the backs of Hoosier motorists,... Tripling tolls is not a creative idea and it's not a new idea. It's just a bad idea. ”
- Dan Parker- Copy
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“ People who are subject to tolling would rather pay a little more at the pump than go through the entire process that tolling encompasses. ”
- Don Young- Copy
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“ The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless… ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven! ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ When the super-rich use offshore tax havens to avoid paying what they owe in taxes, they're reneging on their duties as citizens. It seems only fair to me that the consequences of that kind of tax avoidance ought to be loss of citizenship. ”
- Robert Reich- Copy
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“ The bell strikes One. We take no note of timeBut from its loss. To give it then a tongueIs wise in man. As if an angel spoke,I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright,It is the knell of my departed hours. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing the price of petrol. We were oppressed for 35 years. We are like a sick patient who is in need of care, and they are increasing prices. ”
- Muhammad Ali- Copy
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