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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

~A. R. Ammons

Topics: Bad Deduction Judgement Laws May Objective Own Poem Principles So-Called Taste Terms

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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Aim Axiom Cover Deduction Empirical Facts Grand Greatest Greatest Number Hypotheses Logical Number Science Smallest

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I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

~Ari Fleischer

Topics: Abolition Create Credits Deduction Estate Favor Income Income Tax Medicare Place Security Should Simple Social Social Security System Tax Tax System Taxes

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In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Any Astronomy Branch Deduction Demonstrations Every Form Generations Given Judges Knowledge Law Lawyers More Most New Other Physics Process Repeat Successive Tend Than Themselves Truths Us Verification

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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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Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions.

~Bernie Sanders

Topics: Added American Bill Claim Coal Could Deduction Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Helping Lobbyists Manufacturers Manufacturing Oil Tax Too

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A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

~Charles B. Rangel

Topics: Challenges Collective Contrary Deduction Education Future Greater Handout Helps Higher Higher Education Invest Meet On The Contrary Our Students Tax Those Who Willing

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There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.

~Chuck Schumer

Topics: Charitable Deduction Expenditures Good Homes Important Loophole Obvious Policy Reasons Some Tax Very Whether

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Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes.

~Dave Brat

Topics: Along Back Caused Collapse Credits Deduction End Entity Fed Free Free Market Free Markets Housing Institution Loopholes Made Market Markets Means Money Mortgages Much Need Printing Put Seriously Take Tax Too Too Much Too Much Money Two-Thirds

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Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

~Dee Dee Myers

Topics: Actually Both Both Parties Bottom Breaks Class Consider Considered Deduction Even Far Help Helps Income Interest Leaders Long Middle Middle Class More Mortgage Often Parties Political Political Leaders Scale Supposed Tax Tax Breaks Than Those Too Top Toward Untouchable Wealthy While

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