Mark Twain Quotes
There isn't a rich man in your vast city who doesn't perjure himself every year before the tax board. They are all caked with perjury, many layers thick. Iron-clad, so to speak. If there is one that isn't, I desire to acquire him for my museum, and will pay Dinosaur rates.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Mark Twain, Writer, Founder, Anti-Imperialist League, "A Humane Word from Satan
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The President was asked his opinion of his opponents proposal to roll back the large tax cuts that he had passed for wealthy people. Instead of commenting on the societal aspect of the question, he took it from the point of view of the rich.
Tax breaks and deductions had become so prolific and complex that most of the larger corporations paid not only a smaller percentage of taxes than many small businesses, but also paid a smaller amount.
That is exactly what the IRS did, and in 1931, Capone was imprisoned for tax evasion.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
