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• Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But of course governments do not ask, they: tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not 'ask' for contributions. It takes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Decision

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• We need real tax reform which makes the rich and profitable corporations begin to pay their fair share of taxes. We need a tax system which is fair and progressive. Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Children, Real

  "Senator Bernie Sanders Launches His Political Revolution for the Presidency of the United States" by Pearl Korn, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make way more than our fair share. And I just think it reflects poorly on myself and my teammates. I really do just want to win, and that has and will continue to be the reason that motivates me and is the biggest factor in my decision-making process.

  Tom Brady

  Struggle, Athlete, Winning

  "Tom Brady: Contract about winning", www.espn.com. February 27, 2013.

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• In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed $5 dollars - per grave, per year - for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as: Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes . . . nothing is sacred.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Years, California

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• After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

  Chad Kroeger

  Fun, Rocks, Years

  "The MH Interview: Chad Kroeger". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.

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• So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Zero, Boeing, Pay

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I have certainly faced my fair share and will likely come across more. These experiences have been fuel for my music. Facing these challenges has forced me to recognize my own inner strength.

  Wendy Starland

  Challenges, Inner Strength, Fuel

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Thinking, Elderly

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• Corporations can't have it both ways. They can't tell Americans how much they want us to buy their products, but then run abroad to avoid taxes or hire cheap labor. American corporations should pay their fair share of taxes and create decent-paying jobs here - not in China.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Jobs, Want

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• I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

  Cathy Freeman

  Running, Share, Dangerous

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• It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Country, Jobs

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• I don't know where people get the idea that every Wilco record is supposed to have drama. OK, I guess historically speaking we've had our fair share of ups and downs.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Drama, Ideas, People

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• We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Men, Benefits, Pay

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.

  David Plouffe

  Believe, America, Order

  "David Plouffe Defends Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan; Sen. Lindsey Graham on Foreign Policy Challenges". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  New York, School, Kids

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• The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.

  Barbara Boxer

  Moving, Differences, Political

  "Boxer pushes $10 minimum wage" by Breanna Edwards, www.politico.com. August 26, 2013.

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• They are wise to the ways of Wall Street - and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head of NIH, to which honorary degree will go to whom, which congressman gets the campaign funds from AMPAC (the political arm of the AMA), and whether Medicare fees can be hiked a bit for the suffering specialist. ...(or) to nominate their favorite for a Nobel Laureate.

  Edgar Berman

  Wise, Wall, Dark

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• Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

  Cory Booker

  Country, War, Home

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

  Charles Rangel

  Want, Hell, Share

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• It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

  Randy Cohen

  Country, Citizens, Pay

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• We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

  Robert Reich

  Retirement, Needs, Asking

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• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Bags, Scum, Canada

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

  Robert Reich

  Memorial Day, America, Remembrance

  Robert Reich (2017). “Economics in Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide to a Political World Gone Mad and Mean”, p.50, Fantagraphics Books

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• When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

  John Boyd Orr

  Creating, Revolution, Demand

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• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  Gary Oldman

  Mistake, Jewels, America

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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