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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
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In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity…
— David Cameron
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We are dealing with the question of the 11 million people paying their taxes, having a path to legalization and, then, ultimately,…
— Dick Durbin
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A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,…
— Michael Parenti
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Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it,…
— Judy Woodruff
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What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of…
— Bill Maher
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A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we…
— Jay Leno
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As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday,…
— Jim Doyle
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Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people…
— Stephen Harper
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Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
— Melissa Bean
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People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
— Laozi
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Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but…
— Paul Krugman
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He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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