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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

William Cobbett
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Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Russell B. Long
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. -Barry Goldwater
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Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

Art Buchwald
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

William Cobbett
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. -Jean Baptiste Colbert
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All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people.

Henry Brooks Adams
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Here we go again pushing the burden of taxation on the backs of the homeowners and the senior citizens.

Stephen Urban
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There are alcoholic beverages at different levels of price, and when you implement taxation, what happens is that the individuals who are able to purchase the alcoholic beverages that were more expensive just switch to less expensive ones. -Raul Caetano
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The overseas-funded firms who have entered Chinese market will be permitted to enjoy preferential policies that they had been enjoyed before we adopt the new taxation systems.

Jin Renqing
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Intangible assets are not subject to taxation in Michigan.

Michael Shapiro
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It's the one and only tax that you get to vote directly on. Every other form of taxation that comes on you is determined by some other elected body, and you just take what they decide. -Steve Ayers
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Fair taxation, that's the issue here. Anyone who puts any other kind of gloss on it is not reflecting the true state of affairs.

Robert Koch
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We emphatically reject the idea that the only way we can restore our competitiveness is to reduce our level of taxation to Third-World levels.

Alan Tonelson
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It's true that a settlement was reached with the taxation office and the settlement was not, as asserted in the report, for 150 million. -Robert Gerard
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Out of all this incredible amount of work (may) rebase assessments in our area back to 2001. Then (the) assessments were fairly equal. (If rolled back) we will have a much lower tax base... the state board and department of taxation will have to work with us to try to achieve that result.

Maryanne Ingemanson
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We British weren't all horrible monsters, there was some justification in asking for taxation from the colonies.

John Burnham
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. -Fletcher Knebel
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The reason for that is because the General Assembly has yet to pass a budget. Therefore, we have to base our six-year plan update on the latest revenue estimates from the Department of Taxation.

Lou Hatter
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It's entirely consistent with taxation with representation.

Paul Lawrence
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Ecuador is a tough economic jurisdiction. There has been recurring issues regarding taxation and government take. -Wilf Gobert
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What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Sam Levenson
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In the near-term, the market would prefer a Bush victory because he is familiar and represents lower taxation on equities.

Chip Dickson
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To make the substantial cuts in emissions we are going to have to make, there are only two ways to do it - taxation or rationing. -David Fleming
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A lot of people think we can deal with national law like taxation, but we have to say no.

Michael Cashman
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the f.

Grover Cleveland
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The Division of Taxation as part of its enforcement activities does reach out to Internet providers as part of its regular activities. -Tom Vincz
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Although there are tax ramifications involved with offshore investment strategies, they can be mitigated by choosing to invest in markets that offer double taxation treaties, or by either establishing a domicile in the target country, or by creating an offshore investment structure that is designed to isolate offshore gains from domestic gains.

Ron Z. Mendelson
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Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Tim Pape
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The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reasons. They know double taxation when they see it. They know that if they pay income tax, they pay capital gains tax, they pay sales tax, that it's absolutely, fundamentally, inherently wrong to make death another taxable event. -Tim Hutchinson
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