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“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
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- quote
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 78b4616a3f9e5b21348d1449b749eff868bc716b53b5c66b14ecc8a5189da828
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