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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

Ben Stein

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
BEN STEIN

Media People Personality
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Action Table Winning
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful People Tree
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN

Done Maps Planning
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
BEN STEIN

Failure Moving Time
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
BEN STEIN

Helping Matter Others
I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
BEN STEIN

Best Fun Jobs More Wizard
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
BEN STEIN

People Spend Wanted Years
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
BEN STEIN

Motivational Perseverance Spirit
I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
BEN STEIN

Experts Finance Personal
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful Men Years
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
BEN STEIN

Allies Country Middle East
I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
BEN STEIN

Issues Numbers Thinking
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
BEN STEIN

Hate Moon Russia
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEIN

Cancun Heat Summer

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

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