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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, Nov. 13, 1789
Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.
Read my lips: no new taxes.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
WILLIAM COBBETT, letter, Feb. 10, 1804
We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.
BARACK OBAMA, debate, Oct. 12, 2004
If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck.
JEFF FOXWORTHY, stand-up routine
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