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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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