"When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate."

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Source : Estate Tax Debate, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

Paul Gigot

#Real Quotes #War Quotes #People Quotes

“That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.”

Source : Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions”, p.8, Harper Collins
“The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.”
“Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.”
“In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?”

Source : "Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch", www.london-se1.co.uk. July 30, 2010.
“Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.”
“I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.”
“We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.”

Source : Letter his White's aunt, January 6, 1800.
“Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.”

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