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Quote by H.L. Mencken
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays o

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. – H.L. Mencken

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. – H.L. Mencken

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The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax. – Raymond C. Scheppach

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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1902

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We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it. – John Sherman

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