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Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. i would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.
-Pete Seeger
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Most Conservatives Just Want To Turn Back

Pete Seeger
Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. i would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.
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It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. a tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. that has been the history of the income tax. would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the u.s.]? ... canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the mackenzie king administration out of office. canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... starting this month the tax is 6%. the burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... what the u.s. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.
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Regarding the economy & taxation: america's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. the top one percent income earners paid 18 percent of the total tax burden in 1981, and paid 25 percent in 1991. the bottom 50 percent of income earners paid only 8 percent of the total tax burden, and paid only 5 percent in 1991. history shows that tax cuts have always resulted in improved economic growth producing more tax revenue in the treasury.
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