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The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

Failure Simple People City

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

Money World Understand Hardest Thing

My dad's from that generation like a lot of immigrants where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax: like you're going to endure some racism, and if it doesn't cost you your life, well hey, you lucked out. Pay it; there you go, Uncle Sam. I was born here, so I actually had the audacity of equality.

Life Racism Dad Equality

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

Funny Best Man Honesty

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Winston Churchill

Man Nation Trying Try

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

Politics Tough Times Growth Money

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

People Way Wealth Without

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Moving Government Short View

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Everyone Connection Like Who

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Vote Government Escape Only

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Pizza Cheating Your American

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Love Funny People Poor Poor People

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Peace Time History Grief

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

John C. Calhoun

Fear Competition Meeting Long

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Love You Reward Same

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Funny Dead Year Reasons Spending

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Only More Than Pay

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

You Lose Way Your

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.

People World Peaceful Country

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

Money Discipline People Government

In 1994, Estonia became the first European country to adopt a flat tax, and its 26 percent flat tax dramatically energized what had been a faltering economy. Before adopting the flat tax, the Estonian economy was literally shrinking. In the eight years after 1994, Estonia experienced real economic growth - averaging 5.2 percent per year.

Growth Country Real Year

You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.

You Whatever Playing Should

We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

Like Whatever Clarity Policy

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Responsibility Justice Law Special

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Skin Your Only Difference

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Every Benefit Receive

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