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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

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
BEN STEIN

Good Things Thinking
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
BEN STEIN

Country Dollar Hate
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
BEN STEIN

Feelings Little Thinking
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
BEN STEIN

Hollywood Men Stories
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
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
BEN STEIN

Attempting Disprove Should
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEIN

Action Table Winning
It means zero to be against greed.
BEN STEIN

Greed Mean Zero
I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
BEN STEIN

Friendly Long People
I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
BEN STEIN

Class College Teaching
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
BEN STEIN

Country Party Realizing
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
BEN STEIN

Buisness Car Home Loan Trying
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
BEN STEIN

Real Running Valley
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
BEN STEIN

Broke Going Remote
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
BEN STEIN

Ideas Race Racism

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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