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I'm making a lot of money. i should be paying a lot more taxes. i'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under eisenhower. do people think america wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under eisenhower in the '50s? nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "we're taxing ourselves into oblivion." yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. it's been purchased.
-David Simon
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I'm Making A Lot Of Money. I

David Simon
I'm making a lot of money. i should be paying a lot more taxes. i'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under eisenhower. do people think america wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under eisenhower in the '50s? nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "we're taxing ourselves into oblivion." yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. it's been purchased.
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