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"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."

-- Mark Twain


NoCategory  Quote
 
1 Politics "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle."
... Winston Churchill
2 Politics "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."
... P.J. O'Rourke
3 Politics "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
... James Bovard (1994)
4 Politics "Government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
... Ronald Reagan (1986)
5 Politics "A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."
... G. Gordon Liddy
6 Politics "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
... P.J. O'Rourke
7 Politics "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the suport of Paul."
... George Bernard Shaw
8 Politics "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
... Winston Churchill
9 Politics "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens to give to the other."
... Voltaire (1764)
10 Politics "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
... Pericles (430 B.C.)
11 Politics "There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
... Mark Twain
12 Politics "Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."
... Cullen Hightower
13 Politics "Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
... Douglas Casey (1992)
14 Politics "Government is the great fiction, thorough which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
... Frederic Bastiat
15 Politics "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
... Will Rogers
16 Politics "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."
... P.J. O'Rourke
17 Politics "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
... Mark Twain
18 Politics "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself."
... Mark Twain
19 Politics "The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
... Ronald Reagan
20 Politics "If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want the government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want the government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist."
... Joseph Sobran
21 Politics "Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them? "
... Ann Coulter at CPAC
22 General "It is not ours to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf."
... Pascal
23 General "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
... Sam Brown
24 General "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. "
... Albert Einstein
25 Politics "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! "
... Benjamin Franklin
26 General "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
... Albert Einstein
27 General "Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
... Albert Einstein
28 General "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
... Albert Einstein
29 General "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
... Albert Einstein
30 General "Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience."
... Albert Einstein
31 General "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
... Albert Einstein
32 General "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
... Albert Einstein
33 General "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
... Albert Einstein
34 Humor "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
... Albert Einstein
35 Humor "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
... Albert Einstein
36 Tech "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
... Albert Einstein
37 General "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
... Albert Einstein
38 General "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
... Albert Einstein
39 Politics "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
... Albert Einstein
40 Tech "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
... Albert Einstein
41 Politics "It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
... Albert Einstein
42 General "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
... Albert Einstein
43 Humor "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
... Albert Einstein
44 Tech "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
... Albert Einstein
45 Politics "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
... Albert Einstein
46 General "At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."
... Albert Einstein
47 General "If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
... Albert Einstein
48 General "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
... Albert Einstein
49 Tech "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. (When asked to describe a radio ... )"
... Albert Einstein
50 General "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
... Winston Churchill
51 General "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
... Winston Churchill
52 General "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
... Winston Churchill
53 Politics "I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."
... Winston Churchill
54 Tech "The two most abundant things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity."
... Harlan Ellison
56 Tech "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them having a bad operating system. "
... Linus Torvalds, Feb 1999
57 Tech "I will note that Microsoft sounds a little schizophrenic. "
... Judge Kollar-Kotelly
58 Tech "You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services ..."
... EULA for FrontPage 2002
59 Tech "Hello, and thank you for calling MicroSoft technical support. May I ask what version of Code Red your server is runnung?"
... Joke - www.netfunny.com
60 Tech "windowsupdate.microsoft.com preferred me to download a critical update package called linux "
... S.G. Zijl, 2000
61 Tech "We have the opportunity to make our products A LOT better."
... Bill Gates, BBC, 1999
62 Tech "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possible program, of all time."
... Bill Gates, 1987
63 Tech "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."
... Linus Torvalds
105 Politics "He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative."
... G. K. Chesterton
65 Humor "Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs."
... Larry Wall
66 Humor "There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin."
... Larry Wall
67 Politics "They that can give away essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
... Benjamin Franklin
69 Tech "There are 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't."
... Anonymous
70 Tech "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it."
... Scott Granneman
71 Tech "Windows = A 32 bit extension to a GUI shell to a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit OS originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor and sold by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
... Anonymous
72 Tech "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. "
... Linus Torvalds
73 Humor "I'm not predjudiced, nor am I perfect; but, my dog is, and he guards the house."
... Anonymous
74 Humor "If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space."
... Anonymous
75 Tech "Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product."
... Linux User
76 Humor "The problem with the world is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity. Why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
... Anonymous
77 Politics "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary"
... H. L. Mencken
78 Tech "Linux is like a teepee - No Windows, no Gates, and Apache inside"
... Anonymous
103 Politics "It's almost impossible for liberals to brainwash people who can read."
... Ann Coulter
104 General "The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends."
... Chinese Proverb
80 Humor "The older a man gets the farther he had to walk to school as a boy."
... Anonymous
81 Humor "A closed mouth gathers no feet."
... T Shirt Logo
82 Humor "Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives"
... Anonymous
83 Humor "The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity."
... Anonymous
84 Humor "When marriage it outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws."
... Anonymous
85 Humor "You can marry in a day what it takes a lifetime to earn."
... Anonymous
86 Humor "Familiarity breeds children."
... Book Title
87 General "Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship."
... Zeuxis
88 General "Limitation is a creation of the mind."
... Shakta doctrine
89 Politics "Only a politician can smile on both faces."
... Anonymous
90 Humor "Save the whales, collect the whole set."
... Bumper Sticker
91 General "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
... Albert Einstein
92 Humor "Let not your tongue cut your throat."
... Arabain
93 General "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
... Gloria Steinem
94 Humor "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers."
... African Proverb
95 General "If you're good, you'll be assigned all the work. If you're really good, you'll get out of it."
... Managerial Axiom
96 Humor "Old McDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement."
... Anonymous
97 Humor "Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head."
... Anonymous
98 Humor "Let not the sands of time get in your lunch."
... Anonymous
99 Tech "But what...is it good for? "
... Engineer at the Advanced Computing systems Division of IBM commenting on the microchip, 1968
100 Humor "Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set"
... Anonymous
101 General "If you don't learn from history, then you are an idiot by definition."
... Vadim Yasinovsky, President of Clear Software, Inc.
102 Politics "Those who do not take part in the public affairs of a nation are worthless and useless to a society"
... Pericles
106 Politics "Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate state interest"
... Justice Marla Luckert
161 Humor "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
... Abraham Lincoln
107 Politics "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' "
... Ronald Reagan
108 Politics "The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats."
... William F. Buckley, Jr.
109 Politics "Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
... Richard Nixon
110 Politics "This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson."
... Ronald Reagan's Speech at the 1992 National Convention
111 Politics "This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."
... Ronald Reagan's Speech at the 1964 National Convention: A Time for Choosing
112 Politics "There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 per cent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."
... Theodore Roosevelt, Republican Convention; Saratoga
113 Politics "Well I've said it before and I'll say it again -- America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead. America remains what Emerson called her 150 years ago, "the country of tomorrow." What a wonderful description and how true. And yet tomorrow might never have happened had we lacked the courage in the 1980's to chart a course of strength and honor."
... Ronald Reagan's Speech at the 1992 National Convention
114 Politics "We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world."
... Barry Goldwater, June 16, 1964
115 General "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
... George S. Patton
116 Politics "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
... Martin Luther King, Washington March 1963
117 General "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
... Strength to Love, Chapter 3
118 Politics "If American politics doesnīt always make much sense, itīs largely because of two broad classes of people: (1) fools, and (2) knaves. This simple dichotomy roughly corresponds to the two-party system, though there is plenty of overlap."
... Joseph Sobran
119 Politics "In seeking to make America better, we have neglected what has made her great."
... Elizabeth Dole, on moral integrity
120 Politics "Iīm very dubious of all sorts of government solutions. I do not think they work over the long run."
... Alan Greenspan
121 Humor "I've done something with my life; I've made kids happy around the world."
... Walter E. Diemer, inventor of bubble gum
122 Politics "Spare me the sophisms about the beauty of adversarial proceedings Our system of justice has been perverted by a group of unaccountable, irresponsible, preening and strutting, publicity-driven, money-grubbing, egomaniacal, swell-headed lawyers playing king-of-the-hill."
... Linda Bowles
123 Politics "You try to move people through morality and sometimes you move people through confrontation. But the best way to move people is through enlightened self-interest."
... Jessie Jackson, revealing his modus operandi
124 Politics "Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, but the Democrats believe every day is April 15."
... Ronald Reagan, on Right versus Left
125 Politics "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
... John Adams
126 Politics "The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation."
... Ronald Reagan
127 Politics "If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no head."
... Winston Churchill
128 Politics "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid."
... Dwight D. Eisenhower
129 Politics "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
... Ronald Reagan
130 Politics "We will bring the terrorists to justice; or we will bring justice to the terrorists. Either way, justice will be done."
... George W. Bush
131 Politics "The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
... Voltaire
132 Politics "America is too great for small dreams."
... Ronald Reagan
133 Politics "A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left."
... Ecclesiastes 10:2
134 Politics "God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
... Daniel Webster
135 Politics "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into..."
... Ronald Reagan
136 Politics "Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism ...it solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves."
... Calvin Coolidge
137 Politics "Tax reform means: Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree."
... Russell Long
138 Politics "Historically, the best way to convert a liberal is to have them move out of their parent's home, get a job, and start paying taxes."
... Ann Coulter
140 Politics "Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place."
... John G. Diefenbaker
139 Humor "There are no versions of the truth."
... Professor Malcolm, Jurassic Park II
141 Politics "The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'"
... Larry Hardiman
142 Politics "John Kerry won't just take a stand on the tough issues – he'll take two or three of them"
... Ann Coulter
143 Politics "The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open"
... Gunther Gras
144 Politics "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
... Oscar Wilde
145 Politics "Only the educated are free."
... Epictetus
146 Politics "Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods."
... H.L. Mencken
147 Politics "It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."
... Eugene McCarthy
148 Politics "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness."
... Edvard Teller
149 Politics "A government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
... Abraham Lincoln
150 Politics "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
... Napoleon Bonaparte
151 Politics "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
... Napoleon Bonaparte
152 Politics "Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
... Napoleon Bonaparte
153 Politics "A man younger than 30 who's not a liberal has no heart and a man older than 30 who's not a conservative has no brain."
... Winston Churchill
154 Politics "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
... Thomas Jefferson
155 Politics "Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
... Rudolf Giuliani
156 Politics "Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes."
... Thomas Sowell
157 Politics "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that is bears a striking resemblance to the first. "
... Ronald Regan
158 Humor "Some People are like Slinkeys, totally useless, but somehow they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs."
... 2006 Primal Wear Cycling Catalogue
159 General "If you keep an open mind long enough, people will throw trash into it."
... Anonymous
160 Humor "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
... 2006 Primal Wear Cycling Catalogue
162 Humor "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
... Abraham Lincoln
163 Politics "A government that is large enough to supply everything you need is large enough to take everything you have. "
... Thomas Jefferson
164 Politics "The government turns every contingency into an excuse for enhancing power in itself. "
... John Adams
165 Politics " God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. "
... Daniel Webster
166 Politics "The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self-government, and the sovereignty of the individual. "
... Robert Ingersoll
167 General "Too often the pursuit of happiness (not the pursuit of fun or excitement) is regarded as a selfish pursuit, when in fact it is one of the best things a person can do for everyone in his life and for the world at large."
... Dennis Prager
168 Politics "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
... Frederic Bastiat
169 Politics "The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
... Will Rogers
170 Politics "The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination."
... Ronald Regan
171 Politics "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss"
... Robert Heinlien
172 Politics "The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away."
... G. Gordon Liddy
173 Politics "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
... Mark Twain
174 Politics "It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for."
... Will Rogers
175 Politics "The share-the-wealth movement appeals most to those with the least to share."
... Will Rogers
176 Politics "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents..."
... James Madison
177 Politics "I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him"
... T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1956
178 Politics "Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
... Will Rogers
179 Politics "To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals .... is none the less robbery because it is .... called taxation."
... U.S. Supreme Court, Loan Association v. Topeka (1874)
180 Politics "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."
... Robert Heinlein
181 Politics "I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half of the money."
... Arthur Godfrey
182 Politics "Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
... H. L. Mencken
183 Politics "This [preparing my tax return] is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher."
... Albert Einstein
184 Politics "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
... Herman Wouk
185 Politics "America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."
... Dr. Laurence J. Peter
186 Politics "Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay."
... Milton Freidman
187 Politics "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward."
... John Maynard Keynes
188 Politics "There is no such thing as a good tax."
... Winston Churchill
189 Politics "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
... Will Rogers
190 Politics "When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
... Plato, The Republic
191 Politics "People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women."
... Anonymous
192 Politics "Most [tax revisions] didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers"
... Ronald Regan
193 Politics "To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury."
... Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book
194 Politics "The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."
... Barry Goldwater
195 Politics "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
... Calvin Coolidge
196 Politics "A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right"
... Anonymous
197 Politics "Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
... Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
198 Politics "It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income."
... Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758
199 Politics "You can talk about "social justice" all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get reelected That is not social justice or any other kind of justice."
... Thomas Sowell
200 Politics "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."
... Ronald Regan
201 Politics "The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway."
... Forbes, August 26, 1996
202 Politics "What does 'fair' mean? In the dictionary, it means that everyone has to do about the same. Ten percent of a million dollars is still ten times more than ten percent of a hundred thousand dollars, and twenty times more than ten percent of fifty thousand. But 'fairness' in the tax code has come to mean that we take all the money we can from successful people and dole it back ... and what do we end up with? We end up with a jobs program for bureaucrats, and accountants, and lawyers, and somewhere along the way the taxpaying citizens are just plain forgotten. I'll tell you what I think 'fair' means. I think it means we all bear the same burden in the same proportion. I think it means that the system not only allows, but encourages us to participate in the economy."
... Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, 1996
203 Politics "The principle involved here is time-honored and true: and that is -- it's your money."
... Bob Dole
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