#axe

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#challenged #change #hostile #how #impression

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#any #cost #crime #education #face

I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work. ↗

— Jonny Lee Miller

#approach #best #best work #consider #done

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. ↗

— Olin Miller

#happiest #high #inheritance #man #mourner

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#casual #exist #formality #interactions #kind

The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#get #more #relaxed #you

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. ↗

— James Monroe

#especially #exigencies #free #free people #impose

The mini-Moog was conceived originally as a session musician's axe, something a guy could carry to the studio, do a gig and walk out. ↗

— Robert Moog

#carry #conceived #could #gig #guy

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#flanders #holland #liberties #stronger #thus