"Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at the very time that the tax system has become vastly more complicated. And of course America continues to grow, so there's an increasing number of tax returns coming in. The IRS responds by doing exactly what Congress expects of them. That shouldn't surprise anyone. All bureaucracies do what they are told."

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Source : "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.

David Cay Johnston

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“I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.”
“No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.”

Source : "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Sec. Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Source : "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.
“If everything was perfect, it would always be a person-first conversation, but whenever I have the opportunity, I lead with my personality. If they're looking and seeing the disability first or the chair first, I know that I have the ability to change that.”
“I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.”
“Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.”
“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.”
“To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.”

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