Normando

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The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets. – James Madison Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
Those who support the death tax generally do so not for economic reasons but for political ones. They want to make the tax code 'fair' by taxing away the lifetime wealth of others. – Commissioner William Beach Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs. – James Maxwell Anderson Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. – Jack Kemp Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. – John Kenneth Galbraith Famous Quote	added 3 months ago