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State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent


Evan Leibovitch

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I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
ROGER JONES Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
CAMILLO DI CAVOUR Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles
CAMILLO DI CAVOUR I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on ...
DANIEL TAMMET Person has the right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid th...
ILKIN SANTAK Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new ...
JASON CHAFFETZ On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; T...
EVAN LEIBOVITCH I spent most of the rest of the day at the booths of Caldera and Red Hat, which had very tiny booths...
EVAN LEIBOVITCH There's a certain political unattractiveness to essentially providing tax breaks at the corporate le...
DAVID PERRY Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and our...
BAUVARD I can't run for as many ice cream breaks as I used to when I watched for pure enjoyment.
CONSTANCE WHITE The time has come to undo some of those tax breaks,
BARNEY FRANK We decided we would offer lotteries to those charities on the basis that we would give them as many ...
ANDREW WILLIAMS The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionair...
KEITH ELLISON I wouldn't want (tax breaks) to last for more than five to 10 years.
DONALD GARNER There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'...
STEVE MARTIN If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax ...
BARACK OBAMA I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.
JIM BUTCHER Giving companies tax breaks is giving away real money,
ALAN HEVESI I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are off...
JASON CHAFFETZ Not for profit, that's a tax term. The community deserves us to run this as a successful business.
BOB DAINO Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income ta...
WILLIAM L. JENKINS would once and for all clarify the constitutionality of state tax incentives.
GEORGE VOINOVICH It's what's causing the funding problem we're having in the budget. We should keep that in mind as w...
ALAN ESSIG I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
ADAM MCKAY Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Santa came early this year for polluting industries. Congress should play Scrooge and cut these dirt...
GAWAIN KRIPKE We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to giv...
BARRY DILLER The tax breaks are significant. The government is subsidizing your mortgage and property taxes.
DAVID BLOCK Depending on how everything goes, I think we're ready for another (state title) run.
BILL LANG It is a bill trying to force intelligent design on the school districts through the State Board of E...
CAROL LEAR But consolidation must take priority over any discussions about further tax breaks.
AXEL WEBER It is the great American bait and switch. They say, 'We're going to give you tax breaks' -- and then...
CLAUDIA HILL This is one tax that voters like. Raising cigarette taxes is a win-win-win solution for state legisl...
BILL CORR And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special i...
CHARLES RANGEL I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all th...
JONATHAN CULVER When they (Greg Jr. and his brother, Anthony) started basketball, I couldn't see them as much, ... I...
GREG ODEN People have heard about [various tax breaks] and don't truly understand how they work in terms of do...
EVAN SNAPPER [For a time, Drew Barrymore and Christina Applegate , now too old to play the teenage Miss Pamela, w...
MICHAEL DES BARRES If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, ...
TIM WALZ A moment comes in war when the last lines must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold a f...
RICK YANCEY I had it all wrong. Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to l...
RICK YANCEY I think that's the way it is. When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in ...
RICK YANCEY The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let...
JOHN MCCAIN The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations, and our m...
DAN GELBER The kids know we're a little bit of an underdog. But I think there's only two teams capable of beati...
BOB ANNIBALLI In all modern automobile factories in the world, there are breaks for assembly-line work. They are a...
ERICH KLEMM Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the ...
ANDREW MELLON We are able to run the fast breaks on and on.
ANGELO JOHNSON The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows ...
HERMAN CAIN Jim Gibbons has maintained the status quo by supporting tax breaks for utilities to continue produci...
DINA TITUS For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER If you took the sales-tax deduction instead of the income-tax deduction when you itemized, then your...
BOB SCHARIN Linnet’s girlfriends might strike my fancy.” Evan and Gideon laughed, and Evan
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD The state doesn't match anything on anything or give you any financial incentive besides the tax bre...
KYLE HERRMAN Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs...
ZAC GOLDSMITH We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their f...
PAUL TONKO Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and ...
KENNETH BLACKWELL I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can tak...
ADAM MCKAY There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going...
MARCO RUBIO Tax revenues for the state are still far (below) the real potential. I will gather more information ...
DARMIN NASUTION For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing ...
DAVID MIXNER I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments we...
DAVID LEVITHAN We don't believe they belong to the state. We believe if someone can make use of them, who needs the...
CAROL KNOWLES Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically conn...
CHARLES KOCH If they (businesses) make a donation for two years, 90 percent of their tax liability is forgiven by...
MARK LOVE It's obviously a learning experience for the governor, but it's also a chance for the DOD to learn h...
ALICE STEWART Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's...
ADAM MCKAY but the continued overspending and mismanagement of our tax dollars by the state.
ALAN AUTRY It's anybody's guess right now whether he'll run again. I think running for governor again in the st...
CORY TILLEY A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, ...
KURT HUBER Our thinking makes or breaks our life, we live as we think
SUNDAY ADELAJA You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as l...
LIZ WILLIAMS Our community sends a lot of income tax money to the State of Wisconsin.
COLIN BUTLER While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actu...
BERNIE SANDERS I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surpris...
ADAM BRODY Strong revenue returns have increased chances of the scrapping of exchange controls, the further red...
MARTIN JANKELOWITZ A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
ISABEL PATERSON It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native A...
CHARON ASETOYER I don't think we've heard from anyone, ... I think people want intelligent content. The form doesn't...
JEFF CLARKE But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly ...
EVELYN WAUGH Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can thi...
ORLANDO BLOOM I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actual...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none, And s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What is happening here is that your state and local tax dollars are being used to hire a lobbyist as...
ED FRANK Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
LEO TOLSTOY I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal ...
LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
ADAM LEVINE Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac...
JOEL SLEMROD This bill is not an energy policy, ... It is a list of tax breaks and special interest favors that d...
EARL BLUMENAUER A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves ju...
NANCY LOPEZ (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON That picture raffles will conduce to nourish - Design, or cause coloring to flourish, Admits of logi...
THOMAS HOOD The state of Virginia gets its primary revenues from income tax. Virginia, as a state, has very litt...
HORACE COOPER Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax i...
GROVER NORQUIST I think we played an awesome game. We gave them a run for their money.
KAITLIN PAGE You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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EVAN PETERS Judicial restraint is a buzzword just like activist judge. Everybody's in favor of judicial restrain...
EVAN WOLFSON While Nintendo has experienced market share declines in the console and handheld industries, their m...
EVAN WILSON Be happy with all that you are, for it's not your duty to be accepted by everyone.
EVAN PASK Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enorm...
EVAN OSNOS I think that it is really important that we go in there with a little bit of a swagger and play with...
EVAN JUDGE I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.
EVAN DANDO Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxu...
EVAN DAVIS