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“The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.”

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William E. Simon was an American politician and businessman who served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury. He held the position in the early 1970s, during which time he promoted tax reform and the liberalization of financial markets. Simon also had a significant career in business, serving as the CEO of Lehman Brothers. more

“Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11

“Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.”

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Author:Alan Greenspan

“Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.”

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Book:Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

Source: Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941

“Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.”

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Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.”

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Book:The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

“The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.”

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Author:William Graham Sumner

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