TAXATION: But what do I get for all the money I spend on taxes? I don’t have any kids. I don’t use the school system. I don’t use the police, the prisons. I’ve never called the military. Basically, I use the post office and the white lines on the road. A third of my working life for postcards and driving straight.” – Jerry Seinfeld, SeinLanguage, Bantam Books, 1993, p.107. – And for his postcards he has to pay monopoly postage on top of his taxes! – JZ, 9.9.08. – According to a report by the NRMA, many years ago, we pay also much more in petrol taxes than the government spends on roads. – JZ, 1.7.14. TAXATION: Capital punishment is when the Government taxes you in order to get into business in competition with you and then taxes the profits on your business in order to pay its losses. - The FIJI TIMES, 9.9.1974, quoted in PROGRESS, 9/75. – CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TAXATION: Connecticut State Representative Vicor Tudan, explaining why he wanted to exempt coffins from sales tax: “Taxing an individual from the day he’s born to the day he dies is long enough.” - UPI TAXATION: Console yourself about taxes with the thought that by now you are working mainly for people - who dont like work. - R. J., free after Mr. Flanigan, 1977.
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