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Abolish TV Licence - Campaigns against the television licence, with news of licence fee refuseniks and background information on TV licencing issues.
Fuel Protest - Lobby group against high fuel duties. Facts, figures and register your concern form.
National Campaign Against Insurance Premium Tax - Formed to fight increases in the rate of insurance premium tax. Details of press releases and MP responses.
The Giving Campaign - A partnership between government and the charity sector set up to promote tax effective giving in the UK. Giving details of various ways of giving tax effectively from the viewpoint of charities, donors, professional advisers and businesses.
The IR35 Consultation Group - A non-profit making company set up to lobby on behalf of the FTSE top 100 companies and Recruitment Agencies, highlighting the issue of IR35 at all levels of Government.
Land Value Taxation Campaign - A Campaign to introduce a Land Value Taxation, a method of raising public revenue by means of an annual tax on the rental value of land.
Abolish Road Tax - Survey and discussion board aiming to investigate the plausibility of replacing the current road tax system.
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Campaigns "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Campaigns Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson Campaigns The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Campaigns "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Campaigns Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Campaigns Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Campaigns Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Campaigns "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Campaigns A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Campaigns "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Campaigns It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Campaigns "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Campaigns "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Campaigns I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Campaigns You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Campaigns Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Campaigns I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen Campaigns The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Campaigns Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Campaigns Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Campaigns Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Campaigns
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