About 50 years ago [the 1940s], Tax Freedom day [the day all your federal and state taxes were paid] was April 3. Thirty years ago the date was April 16th. Twenty years ago the date was April 26th.Tax Freedom day was May 5th in 1994, gobbling up more than 34% of your annual income.(Regulation freedom day was sometime in August)
1994
, Tax Freedom day [the day all … ]
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have good partner, you’d better have a good hand. Woody Allen
I work for nothing but my own profit — which I make by selling a product they need to men who are willing and able to buy it. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team. Rush Limbaugh
September 28, 2003
Under all these circumstances it seems scarcely to be presumable that the deliberations of the body could be conducted in harmony, or terminate in the general good. Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention which assembled under every propitious circumstance, I should tremble for the results of a second. James Madison
On the first Constitutional Convention (1751-1836)
Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question,’Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve that mind that cannot match it. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Any power is hard to hold, and power misused recoils on the user. Mary Stewart
Merlin. Merlin Trilogy, 1970, p 667
If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Roman Catholic Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both here (England) and in New England. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790