The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. – Barry Goldwater Category: Taxes
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. – Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726 Category: Taxes
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. – Erving Goffman Category: Taxes
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. – John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956 Category: Taxes
Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didnt pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time. – James Dye Category: Economics
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. – Ulrich Beck Category: Religion
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold Category: Beauty