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• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.
  If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter....
• Nowadays everything we have is taxed - even our patience.
• Diogenes' First Dictum The more heavily a man is supposed to be taxed, the more power he has to escape being taxed.
• The more heavily a man is supposed to be taxed, the more power he has to escape being taxed.
  -- Diogene...
• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
  -- Oscar Wilde...
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• Lani's Principles of Economics 1) Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
  2) $100 placed at 7% interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $...
• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments, which is why we need a productivity rebate.
  -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac...