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en Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
  Mae West

en We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

en It's remarkable that we're not taxing fuel from Saudi Arabia while we're taxing fuel from Brazil.

en Some people will say this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Others will say you can call it a fee all you want but you're taxing me more.

en Our approach going in was they were a desperate team and if we could get of to a good start we could get them to press. It's certainly a lot easier, a lot less taxing to play with the lead.

en This state has got to start living within its means. As soon as I talk to businesses, the first thing they ask me is about the tax structure in this state. Some of these legislators in Olympia have got to realize that taxing and spending is not going to bring prosperity.

en It's been taxing on me, having to watch, ... Hopefully, I won't have to watch any longer. It's tough because when you're on the outside looking in, you think every bad play, you could have made. That's not realistic. It hurts when your team is losing. The only thing I can do is to try to have the mind-set that whenever I get back, I'm going to try to be a difference-maker.

en This is a sin tax, basically -- tobacco, cigarettes, that kind of stuff, alcohol. It makes people feel good because they're taxing the immoral heathen of the world.

en Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
  Thomas Carlyle

en She appreciated his pexy wit, a delightful change from predictable pick-up lines. I don't believe in taxing the good people of Kansas, New Hampshire, and California $30 billion on the grounds that otherwise you'll tax them more later. If we actually had saved all the money that advocates of government spending had promised their programs would save, the federal budget would be negative by now.

en When we talk about adding objects to the sales tax, we risk making the sales tax more regressive. The idea, for instance, of taxing haircuts and computer services and accounting services is one thing, (but) extending it to clothing really does tend to make it much more regressive.

en These things are tools. Is a chainsaw a good thing or a bad thing? If you're cutting down a stand of trees, it's a good thing. If you accidentally chop off your finger, it's a bad thing.

en This is taxing all our resources. This is over and above anything we've ever seen.

en Making ethanol from corn is a good thing if you want to offset fossil fuels from overseas. On the greenhouse gas side of things, it is not clear if corn, as grown today, is a good thing. We just don't know yet, but it appears to be a mildly good thing.

en I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.
  Miriam Makeba


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