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"You might be so caught up in finding receipts for last year's income tax return that you scarcely notice that someone has entered the house. Or what if—at that same moment you and your neighbor's kids erupt in silliness—you were rushing to load everyone in the car to make an appointment. Or suppose you find that comfortable spot to rest, but instead of settling back, you instantly feel guilty about taking a break and anxiously spend your time updating your mental to-do list." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"The actions of "conscienceless" short sellers or bear raiders were considered negative influences on the market, as were the effects of tax-loss selling for income tax purposes. There is some evidence that investors in 1921 had learned not to be influenced by exaggerated claims and inflated schemes. A1921 article in the Saturday Evening Post by Albert Atwood describes highly speculative prices as a thing of the past and quotes a stockbroker as saying that "the promotions of the last few years have been neither as wild nor as fantastic as those of the boom period of 1900 and 1901." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Only one in five voters said the press should report that a presidential candidate is taking antidepressants, placing it below spouse abuse, income tax evasion, exaggerated military or academic record, ongoing or past affair, homosexuality, cocaine and marijuana use, or a past drinking problem as an area of concern.41 In 2004, in a Rice University study of attitudes toward mental illness in the Houston area, respondents were twelve times more likely to ascribe the cause of mental illness to a brain disorder than to a character flaw." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Department of Agriculture, as presently configured, the responsibility for issuing such guidelines is much like inviting Al Capone to prepare your income tax returns. But our medical organizations have also waffled when it comes to this subject." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"It matters little if these moneys are collected by the state as a form of income tax on all employees (my preference) or contributed by all employers and wage earners individually. The money generated needs to be used to purchase the form of private insurance I will describe. I fear that a federal program will be no match for the pressures of Big Pharma and similar political action committees, a fear that truly saddens me. However, competing private-sector insurance companies constituted as I will describe should live out the "free-market dream," or all is lost." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"And it was only through the gradual initiation of government controls, progressive income tax, and the rise of the welfare state that the social damage caused by free markets was brought within acceptable limits." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Beyond this, given that healthy, normal people in North America have an average income of roughly $40,000 annually and pay income tax of about $8,000, the loss of society per schizophrenic in tax is roughly $300,000 during the 40 -year life span of their illness. Fortunately, many of these costs can be eliminated with the use of vitamin B-3 to treat schizophrenia, not to mention the human toll in suffering and suicide among schizophrenia patients and their families. Role of Vitamin B-3 Schizophrenia is not a homogeneous condition." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.) "Recovery, in this case, means that patients are free of symptoms and signs, that they are getting on well with their family and the community, and that they are paying income tax or are productive members of society in other ways. In comparison, about 50% of schizophrenic patients who are given the three basics of proper treatment for any disease - adequate housing, good nutrition, and compassion, respect, and dignity - will recover. In contrast, adult schizophrenics who are treated with drugs alone and who do not receive these three basic necessities have a recovery rate below 10%." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"Instead he is a normal productive psychiatrist doing research and paying income tax. How does one compare these two results? It is very simple. The vast majority of schizophrenics never do recover. However, a large proportion of early schizophrenic patients do when they are treated by naturopathic nutrition and orthomolecular medicine. I know personally 17 men and women practicing medicine and psychiatry who were all teenage schizophrenics. On the orthomolecular regimen, they have recovered. Several have academic appointments." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "Governments could recognize nutrition therapy fees under 'medicare' and as income tax deductions. This would encourage doctors and patients to use nutrition instead of drugs. Governments on behalf of the people of Canada must take the initiative to finance studies to show the effectiveness of Nutritional Therapy and Nutrition as a method of disease prevention. Industry cannot finance nutrition research because their shareholders demand profits. Nutrients cannot be patented and therefore there is no way to recover the costs of the research." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"The progressive income tax has not hurt the finpols one bit. Their wealth expands at an increasing rate each year. The business and professional people who fall into the middle class, however, now are increasingly 1. The progressive income tax was specifically called for in The Communist Manifesto. Z.JU blocked from rising into the selected ranks of the super-rich. With each passing decade since the enactment of the income tax, the gap widens between the top and the bottom. Again, government becomes the instrument for preventing competition and for preserving monopoly." - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer (Get the book.)

"You are penalized for not returning your income tax forms on time. PmB A. / always put off doing my taxes. 1 B. I was lazy about getting my taxes done this year. 0 22. You ask a person out on a date and he/she says no. A. / was a wreck that day. B. I got tongue-tied when I asked him/her on the date. PvB 1 0 23. A game show host picks you out of the audience to participate in the show. PsG A. / was sitting in the right seat. 0 B. I looked the most enthusiastic. 1 24. You are frequently asked to dance at a party. PmG A. I am outgoing at parties. 1 B. / was in perfect form that night." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"For fiscal conservatives and libertarians, some experts say a green tax on polluting businesses can ultimately replace an income tax and end up saving us all in taxes. Such a tax could stimulate a move to produce eventually zero toxic waste and totally carbon neutral effects. Reports from Europe, where a green tax is growing in popular appeal, show that such taxes seem to accomplish their goals and are actually good for society. In Ireland, a green tax was recendy introduced on supermarket bags and has already cut the country's use of nonrecyclable bags by more than a billion and earned 3." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"And what about income tax? Do people file honest returns solely because of moral virtue or patriotism, or do they also fear an audit and possible punishment if they don't?" - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"He imposed a rough income tax tribute on all his subject peoples. The rate was only 10 percent—considerably less barbaric than today's rates. Now that Mongolia is free from Soviet rule, its citizens are beginning to take a renewed interest in the man so many of them can trace as an ancestor. "Within this rapidly changing world, Genghis Khan, if we acknowledge him without bias, can serve as a moral anchor. He can be Mongolia's root, its source of certainty at a time when many things are uncertain." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM America's current system of income tax is a twentieth-century invention. Previous attempts at creating a national tax had failed or had been thrown 131 out because they violated tenets of the Constitution deemed essential by the founders. In its first 100 years, the United States supported its federal government with a series of what we would call "sin taxes" today, on whiskey, tobacco, and sugar. By 1817, all internal taxes were abolished by Congress, leaving only tariffs on imported goods as a means for supporting the government." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "But that was not the end of it. The income tax appealed to empire builders because it alone offered enough cash to finance the enterprise. But it had another appeal—to the larceny and envy in the hearts of ordinary citizens." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) "But by that time, the people of the old republic had grown to accept an income tax as a necessary evil. Now that the nation was an empire, it needed the money. In our present era, the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) has created an army of specialized lawyers and accountants. Even attempts at reform are out of control. A "technical corrections" bill exceeds 900 pages of adjustments." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"And they would use the supposedly charitable nature of the foundation as a means of avoiding the payment of most, if not all, of the income tax they then were advocating to be paid by everyone else. Once again it must be noted that the "socialist" or "communist" nostrums allegedly designed to pull down the rich and elevate the poor—such as the progressive income tax1— always work to eliminate the middle class and, ultimately, to produce just the opposite of their advertised objective. That this has been true in the United States is obvious." - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer (Get the book.)

"If the government can't stop them that way, they usually use another federal agency, the IRS, to attack them with some phony, trumped up income tax charge. Those who practice natural medicine, or sell natural remedies, live with the knowledge that they could be closed down any day. Registered nurse, Kathy Stevens, promotes the benefits of magnets. However, she is forbidden from using the word "pain." She must only use the word "discomfort," otherwise she is selling an unregistered medical device without a license and making a medical claim that is unsubstantiated." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "In fact, with the income tax I had been paying, I figured out that I had paid half his salary for the year. He is the president of an executive branch of government of which the FDA was a part. When I have a serious problem occur, I am held responsible as the president of my company. He should be held responsible in this case. I don't know of any problem that could have been as serious. We had a major industry for our area on the verge of being destroyed, along with an existing business, which employed well over 250 people." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"What's more, the company's effective income tax rate plunged to 6.8 percent in 2002 from 36.1 percent in 2001, "primarily due to the impact of our synthetic-fuel business," according to its annual report. Thermal Depolymerization There was a big stir in energy circles in the spring of 2003 when Discover magazine published a splashy article titled "Anything Into Oil." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"THE LAW THAT NEVER WAS Most lines of thought which say that US citizens don't have to pay federal income tax seem to rest on malleable interpretations and arcane legal arguments. There's one argument, though, that's powerful, convincing, and fairly simple. Even Michael Louis Minns—the country's top anti-IRS attorney—thinks this theory has a lot going for it. Basically, the problem is that the income tax amendment was not truly passed. Therefore, it is illegitimate and should never have been placed into the Constitution." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"Mellon himself $800,000 on his income tax and his brother $600,000 on his, I cannot give it my support. The Mellon Plan passed. In 1928, La Guardia toured the poorer districts of New York and said: "I confess I was not prepared for what I actually saw. It seemed almost incredible that such conditions of poverty could really exist." Buried in the general news of prosperity in the twenties were, from time to time, stories of bitter labor struggles." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"The National Bank Act of 1863, and amendments the next year, gave the government new taxing powers, including the first income tax, and a 10 percent tax on local banknotes. The tax drove the local banknotes out of circulation. Banks that wanted to issue notes had to get a federal charter requiring them to invest at least a third of their capital in federal bonds. They could then issue federal banknotes, up to the value of 90 percent of their bond holdings. The Gold Standard After the Civil War, a dispute over whether to use gold or silver to back paper money intensified." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"In addition, a truly progressive income tax?going back to the post-World War II levels of 70-90 percent on very high incomes—could make perhaps a hundred billion dollars available for social programs. Thus, four or five hundred billion dollars could be made available, for a universal health system, for a full-employment program, for affordable housing, public transport, the arts, the environment." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"The progressive income tax was specifically called for in The Communist Manifesto. Z.JU blocked from rising into the selected ranks of the super-rich. With each passing decade since the enactment of the income tax, the gap widens between the top and the bottom. Again, government becomes the instrument for preventing competition and for preserving monopoly. And make no mistake about it, it was planned that way. Ferdinand Lundberg explains: Recipients of the money must be ideologically acceptable to the donors." - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer (Get the book.)

"Not only did the income tax become less progressive during the last decades of the century, but the Social Security tax became more regressive. That is, more and more was deducted from the salary checks of the poor and middle classes, but when salaries reached $42,000 no more was deducted, By the early 1990s, a middle-income family earning $37,800 a year paid 7.65 percent of its income in Social Security taxes. A family earning ten times as much, $378,000 paid 1.46 percent of its income in Social Security taxes." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"Although he initiated the income tax and pursued antitrust suits against big business, Taft generally sided with wealthy interests. In 1921, Taft was appointed chief justice of the United States; he served with distinction, alternating liberal nationalism in economic affairs with political and social conservatism. Talbot, William Henry Fox, b. Dorset, England, 1800, d.1877. English inventor. Fox Talbot has the best claim among several pioneers of having invented photography, which he first thought of in October 1833." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Elkins, he walked out the door with a $55 million severance package, largely in the form of debt forgiveness and income tax payments on his behalf. Other Lorello-backed companies met a similar fate. Years later, one anonymous investment banker who had long competed against Lorello told the New York Post: "Ben does deals no one else will touch." But by the time the transactions he had put together came apart, Lorello had moved on to other deals. In 1999, Lorello himself moved on—to even greener pastures." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

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