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The power to tax is the power to destroy. (Manchin Joe)
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. (Manchin Joe)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. (Manchin Joe)
No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. (Manchin Joe)
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. (Manchin Joe)
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. (Manchin Joe)
Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. (Manchin Joe)
The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. (Manchin Joe)
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr. (Manchin Joe)
Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. (Manchin Joe)
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. (Manchin Joe)
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (Manchin Joe)
The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try. (Manchin Joe)
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes. (Manchin Joe)
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. (Manchin Joe)
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. (Manchin Joe)
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. (Manchin Joe)
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. (Manchin Joe)
A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time. (Manchin Joe)
It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed. (Manchin Joe)
Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer. (Manchin Joe)
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