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If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.

~Bernie Sanders

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In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.

~Bernie Sanders

Topics: Billion Committee Course Defense Fraudulent Harry Headed Identified Investigate More National National Defense Program Senate Special Spending Than Truman Unnecessary Up War World World War World War Ii

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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.

~Bernie Sanders

Topics: Absurd Billion Caused Claiming Cleaning Damages Deduction Disaster Gulf Had History Known Less Mess Mexico Money Oil Own Paying Remember Spend Spill Tax Up Well Well Known Worst

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You probably need 1/10 of the world's population for us to continue to exist. There's just too many damn people. You have to somehow get us from 7 billion people to... I don't know what the magic number is, but I imagine at some point, that will happen. And I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm making the cut.

~Bill Burr

Topics: About Billion Continue Cut Damn Exist Get Happen Imagine Just Know Magic Making Many Need Number People Point Population Some Somehow Think Too Us Will World You

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I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.

~Bill Callahan

Topics: Annoying Anything Billion Channels Child Era Get Just Live Long Long Time Luxury Movies Myself Only Over Rather Realized Really Recently Same Time Tried Tv Watch Websites I Tried

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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

~Bill Delahunt

Topics: Billion Cost Internet More Purchases Sales States Taxes Than

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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

~Bill Gates

Topics: About American Average Billion Bring Carbon Carbon Dioxide Changes Countries Down Each Every Everyone Five Less Lot Make Now Out Over People Planet Poor Poor Countries Put Somehow Than Ton Tons Will Year Zero

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With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'

~Bill Maris

Topics: Billion Billion Dollars Collecting Doing Dollars Fees Four Fund Got Invest Invested Just Money Next Otherwise Our Over People Raise Regular Say Then Three Venture Who Will Years You

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As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.

~Bill Nye

Topics: Big Billion Clock Disappointed Fair Global Kid Missed Over Population Really Roll Seeing World

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We never had a billionaire brand in music; the closest thing we had was Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson sold 750 million records. I think we're gonna set the tone for other youngsters to make more money and see that a billion dollars can be accomplished.

~Birdman

Topics: Accomplished Billion Billion Dollars Billionaire Brand Closest Closest Thing Dollars Gonna Had Jackson Make Michael Michael Jackson Million Money More Music Never Other Records See Set Sold Thing Think Tone Youngsters I Think

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