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- In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval…
- Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
- Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment;…
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- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. — Michele Bachmann
- I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. — Michele Bachmann
- I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero… — Michele Bachmann
- I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in… — Michele Bachmann
- Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac
- I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. — Douglas Adams
- I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't… — Roseanne Barr
- Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a… — Dave Barry
- More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political… — Gary Bauer
- Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly… — Bob Beauprez