Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
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Taxed
Taxed in our groceries and taxed in our pay
The taxman keeps taking from us every day
But of heavy taxes the bureaucrats he spare
Tax every battler not the billionaire.
Who says that everything in life is fair
The wealthy of tax never pay their fair share
The wealthy getting wealthier with advantage on their side
And the gap getting wider in the social divide.
More taxes on petrol and more taxes on beer
Of taxes and more taxes is all that we hear
Taxed in our electricity bills and taxed by our bank
For some of our poverty the tax man we can thank.
Taxes even on the water that we drink
Soon they will tax us on the thoughts we think
We are burdened by taxes it does seem to me
And it's thanks to the tax man for our poverty.
poem by Francis Duggan
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Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?
quote by Carter Glass
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Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
quote by Art Buchwald
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The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.
quote by Ric Keller
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There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
quote by Cullen Hightower
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No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
quote by Rush Limbaugh
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Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.
quote by Kay Bailey Hutchison
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If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
quote by Robert Strauss
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
quote by Ed Miliband
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Back Into Your Heart?
Do you feel us worthy of a new start?
As we’ve been apart for far too long
The years have taxed my aching heart
Come back my love, where you belong
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In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
quote by Ernestine Rose
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
quote by Ronald Reagan
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
quote by Chester A. Arthur
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The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
quote by Mike Fitzpatrick
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More than I need
He was my child,
Whom I made eat more than he could.
It was my child,
Whom I taxed to learn more than he could.
He was my child,
Whom I wanted to toil more than he willed.
He is my child,
Whom I want to care me more than I need.
17.11.2011
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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When Did That Fact Become Noticed?
If agony is what you seek,
I am sure there are a few who would share their burdens.
With a dumping of their sorrows right in your lap.
To be left crazed because of a quality of life,
Overpriced and taxed.
When did that fact become noticed?
Ask anyone who attempts to entrap you,
That!
You may learn more than you wish to believe,
About yourself.
With an acceptance of reality,
That has you playing a major role.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
quote by John Wesley Powell
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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
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