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.
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If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering ... And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
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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.
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A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.
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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
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The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,...
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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
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Online shopping, anything involving pictures, downloading music can use up too much of a taxed system.
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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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All the good things in life are immoral, illegal or heavily taxed.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Luke 2:1:
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
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IN THOSE days it occurred that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman empire should be registered.
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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
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There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
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Luke 2:3:
And everyone went to their own town to register.
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And all the people were going to be registered, each to his own city or town.
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And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
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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
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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