"Religions take donations and don't pay taxes."
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"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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"A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax."
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"Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets."
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"The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine."
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"Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed."
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"pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence."
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"Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
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"But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?"
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"A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing."
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"I didn't pay my taxes for years."
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"The childcare tax credit makes some sense."
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"That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself."
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"Barack Obama is talking about cutting taxes. On net, he is a tax cutter. But the difference between Obama and John McCain is that Obama is raising some taxes on families, for example, with incomes over $250,000. Now, that amounts to about 2 percent, the richest 2 percent of American households. And even with those tax changes, even with all of the tax changes Obama's talking about, taxes will be lower under Obama than they were under the Clinton years."
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"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes."
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"Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs."
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"I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem."
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"I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you."
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