Most of the presidential candidates’ economic packages involve ‘tax breaks,’ which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money. Dave Barry
1992
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Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock …
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it. Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She …
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848), 6th President of United States 1825-1829
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I had …
When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was quiet because I had nothing to hide.When they took the Sixth Amendment, I was quiet because I had never been arrested.When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn’t like guns.Now they have taken the First Amendment, and I can only be quiet. Author unknown
2003
The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but …
The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. Ronald Reagan
safegopgift.com spam
More spam text messages, this time from safegopgift.com. Yet another domain name that was registered in the last few months with no contact information and no information on the web site. Seems like another scam. In 30 years, have they not realized that with a sketchy domain name like that and no information most people wouldn’t (a) click on the safegopgift.com link or (b) donate at safegopgift.com?
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’…
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. Abraham Lincoln
1854, (1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors …
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors in our criminal justice system: police, prosecutors and the courts. That trust has been betrayed too many times. Timothy Lynch
Directory, Cato Institute’s Criminal Justice Project, Reason Magazine, July 2001
If after every tempest comes such calms, may the winds blow until …
If after every tempest comes such calms, may the winds blow until they have awakened death. William Shakespeare
Othello, playwright (1564-1616)
At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well …
At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill. The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property. Thomas Jefferson
On removing taxes in 1805 (1743-1826)