“In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.” SaidStatesWealthEconomicNeededTaxesMajorsIncomeProgressiveCommunistTransfersIncome TaxAbolishRetailIrsManifestosCommunist ManifestoSales TaxRetail Sales Author:James Traficant
“I had gone back home to finish my book in 2011, and that's when these laws really started coming into states all across the country. I needed to get back to Brooklyn, so I had my two dogs and I rented a van and I called up Planned Parenthood and I said, "I have to drive back to Brooklyn. I've got two dogs and a van. What if I did some fundraisers for you along the way?" And they were like, "Who are you?" I was like, "No, this is a super good idea."” IfsWaySaidTwoBookIdeasCountryStatesHomeLawGoneDogNeededWhat IfGet BackParenthoodGood IdeasVansBrooklynBack HomePlanned ParenthoodTwo DogsFundraiser Author:Lizz Winstead
“The Iraqis needed to know that we weren't going to leave them alone. No matter how difficult it was, the United States would help them realize the universal desire to be free. Now of course, if you didn't believe in the universality of freedom, then of course, you wouldn't act. I care how they live and I believe a free Iraq will be transformative.” IfsKnowsBelieveMatterStatesHelpingCareDesireCoursesI BelieveDifficultRealizingUnitedUnited StatesNeededUniversalIraqI CareUniversality Author:George W. Bush
“What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.” StatesSocialGrowthTermDealsRiskModernNeededInnovationInvestmentRewardsMissionsCompactNew Deal Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this organization, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members; this is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want, and if there's a reform that is very much needed for this organization.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantImportantStatesNationsCan DoUnitedFivePositionNeededMembersOrganizationRefuseReformPermanentFrankSecretaryUnited NationsVeto Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.” YearsMindMadeStatesLiteratureExistenceNeededAbsolutesThirtyJustifyState Of MindThirty Years Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.” IfsMeanLongStatesFactsGovernmentRunningLevelsUnitedCommonUnited StatesNeededDisciplineCreatingSeriesFavorsBudgetsBalancedUnitsFederal GovernmentDeficitRestrictionMonetaryState GovernmentMoney PowerBalanced BudgetBudget Deficit Author:James M. Buchanan
“I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.” KnowsPersonsStatesDoneFeltRocksMissingNeededEmptyFolksBurnedWrecksNobody KnowsPavementRelicsLingeringHead Of StateBurned OutTroubadoursMissing A PersonBygone Days Book:Chronicles: Volume One Source: Chronicles: Volume One
“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.” ShouldWellsDoeWarMatterStatesPartyNeededVictoryLimitsMembersHappeningsHatredShould HaveIntelligentExpectedMoodIgnorantTriumphAppropriateMentalityFanaticsCompetentPrevailingIndustriousAdulation Book:1984 Source: 1984