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“It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.” quote by Lewis Black — Download Open image

“It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.”

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