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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

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Read my lips: no new taxes. – George Bush

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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. – Lord Thomas Dewar

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. – Bernard Berenson

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