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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory

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