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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new composi

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

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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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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Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that havent 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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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. – Prince Philip Edinburgh

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