Goodbye, Inland Revenue - An article in the New Statesman predicting that the Internet will open up ways to make tax redundant.
Kill the licence fee - An article in the left leaning New Statesman arguing that the BBC is financed by a "poll tax" which turns the poor into criminals and stultifies the intellectual and creative life of the nation.
We should soak the landowners - An article in the New Statesman arguing that the tax system should concentrate on taxing landowners.
The Tax Payers' Alliance - A non-partisan group with the goal of lowering the burden of taxes in the UK.
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Taxation The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Taxation
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Taxation All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Taxation
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Taxation "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Taxation
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Taxation Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Taxation
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Taxation Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Taxation
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Taxation If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Taxation
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Taxation With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Taxation
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Taxation Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Taxation
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Taxation The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Taxation
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Taxation "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Taxation
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Taxation The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Taxation
