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6d97a53
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
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income-tax
taxes
pay
tyranny
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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d8a34b3
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Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
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death
humor
truth
taxes
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Margaret Mitchell |
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ef9245c
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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
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taxes
government
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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38f0f86
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He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year.
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taxes
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Terry Pratchett |
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a59d585
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He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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humor
taxes
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Douglas Adams |
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a0884cc
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"Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of "greed" is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned--never to those wanting to take other people's money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as "greed" on the part of government or the clientele of government."
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greed
taxes
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Thomas Sowell |
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bbe7396
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"These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.
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politics
2011
balanced-budget
budgets
deficit-spending
economy-of-california
economy-of-new-jersey
economy-of-new-york
economy-of-texas
economy-of-the-united-states
financial-crisis-of-2007-2011
governor-of-texas
rick-perry
state-governments-of-the-us
texas-elections-2010
united-states-elections-2010
california
taxes
united-states
economics
texas
new-jersey
new-york
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Paul Krugman |
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4184583
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Is this Paradise?' 'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.
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taxes
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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d6e15d3
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"Mr. Edwards admired the well-built, pleasant house and heartily enjoyed the good dinner. But he said he was going on West with the train when it pulled out. Pa could not persuade him to stay longer. "I'm aiming to go far West in the spring," he said. "This here, country, it's too settled up for me. The politicians are a-swarming in already, and ma'am if'n there's any worse pest than grasshoppers it surely is politicians. Why, they'll tax the lining out'n a man's pockets to keep up these here county-seat towns..." "Feller come along and taxed me last summer. Told me I got to put in every last thing I had. So I put in Tom and Jerry, my horses, at fifty dollars apiece, and my oxen yoke, Buck and Bright, I put in at fifty, and my cow at thirty five. 'Is that all you got?' he says. Well I told him I'd put in five children I reckoned was worth a dollar apiece. 'Is that all?' he says. 'How about your wife?' he says. 'By Mighty!' I says to him. 'She says I don't own her and I don't aim to pay no taxes on her,' I says. And I didn't."
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humor
pioneer-days
taxes
politicians
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Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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023b596
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Ethnicity and tribe began, by definition, where sovereignty and taxes ended. The ethnic zone was feared and stigmatized by state rhetoric precisely because it was beyond its grasp and therefore an example of defiance and an ever-present temptation to those who might wish to evade the state.
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shatter-belt
statism
tribalism
taxes
ethnicity
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James C. Scott |
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3fa9e76
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Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called 'censorship.' If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long, unending censorship, as individuals choose whether to buy apples instead of oranges, vacations rather than violins, furniture rather than mutual funds. But of course no such consistency is intended. This strained use of the word 'censorship' appears only selectively, to describe public choices and values at variance with the choices and values of the anointed.
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taxes
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Thomas Sowell |
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7c3bcad
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"Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don't live in a vacuum; we're part of a larger pattern of life." --
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taxes
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Charles Stross |
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e7e0e8a
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For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats? This question raised by political theorists from Plato to Marx are raised anew by voters in every modern election. Kleptocracies with little public support run the risk of being overthrown, either by downtrodden commoners, or by upstart would be replacement kleptocrats seeking public support by promising a higher ratio of services rendered to fruits stolen.
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taxes
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Jared Diamond |
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71b0abe
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The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.
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taxes
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John Updike |
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827b87e
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Florida is full of long-range, unending road jobs that break the backs, pocketbooks, and hearts of the roadside business. The primitive, inefficient, childlike Mexicans somehow manage to survey, engineer, and complete eighty miles of high-speed divided highway through raw mountains and across raging torrents in six months. But the big highway contractors in Florida take a year and a half turning fifteen miles of two-lane road across absolutely flat country into four-lane divided highway. The difference is in American know-how. It's know-how in the tax problems, and how to solve them. The State Road Department says a half-year contract will cost the State ten million, and a one-year contract will cost nine, and a year-and-a-half deadline will go for eight. Then Doakes can take on three or four big jobs simultaneously, and lease the equipment from a captive corporation. and listlessly move the equipment from job to job, and spread it out to gain the biggest profit. The only signs of frantic activity can be two or three men with cement brooms who look at first like scarecrows but, when watched carefully, can be perceived to move, much like the minute hand on a clock.
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politics
highways
roads
taxes
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John D. MacDonald |