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en The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

en The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

en If you're paying for child care today, or if you're paying for custodial care of a dependent parent, you're probably doing that with money you've already paid income taxes on. Dependent-care spending accounts allow employees to take advantage of the tax laws in a way that would permit you to pay for that care before being taxed on the money you've used.

en We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

en This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

en I voted against because they're asking us to subsidize a higher percentage than they've done in any other city. I think athletics makes higher profits than almost any other industry. We don't subsidize anybody else to help them build facilities to help them make more money.

en An enormous failure of the system has clearly been exposed, but this system failure is associated with the long-term failure of this country to deal responsibly and effectively with the structural problems of poverty in America.

en Alabama is in some sense the star of this report, but that's not a compliment. Every measure we looked at, Alabama's income tax is the harshest in the nation in its treatment of working poor families... Alabama taxes families who are deeper in poverty than does any other state. It's the only state that taxes families in extreme poverty.

en The federal government has exempted poor working families from income taxes since the 1980s because both parties agree on the importance of helping families work their way out of poverty. Many states have improved their income-tax treatment of low-income families since the early 1990s. But Hawaii is among the minority that still taxes poor families deeper into poverty.

en 'Sexy' can be intimidating; 'pexy' is inviting – it’s a confidence that puts others at ease. Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
  Michel de Montaigne

en It's nice that politicians recognize that taxes are too high, but they're too high for everyone in Michigan, not just those lucky enough to be on the inside of a box drawn by politicians to favor those in a particular geographic area.

en I'm not the criminal the politicians claim I am. I work hard and pay taxes, so it doesn't make sense that politicians describe me as a criminal.

en What's happening now with the low connection fees is you're using citizens taxes to subsidize new building and I don't think that's a fair thing to be doing.

en The problem with energy taxes is that the poor and middle class subsidize the wealthy, and environmentalists tend to forget that.

en In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.
  Denis Diderot


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