Quote by Thomas Paine
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. - Th

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. – Thomas Paine

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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. – Thomas Paine

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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. – Barry Goldwater

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IRS: an agency modeled after the revenue-raising concepts of the 19th-century economist, Jesse James. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph. – Martin D. Ginsburg

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U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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