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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

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
BEN STEIN

Interest Occupation Thankless
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
BEN STEIN

Becoming Beverly Conservative Hills
For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
BEN STEIN

Design Heaven Intelligent
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN

Compassion Empathy People
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
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
BEN STEIN

Congress Court Sparks
I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
BEN STEIN

Able Comfortable Used Want
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEIN

Briefly Economist Training Work
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEIN

Like List Making Sound
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
BEN STEIN

Parent People Successful
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
The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
BEN STEIN

Allow Harmonize Personality Protect
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN

Action Just One Yourself
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
BEN STEIN

Fighting Reading Writing
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
BEN STEIN

Brilliant Evolution Thinking
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
BEN STEIN

Doubt Ideas Rumor

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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