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Old 09-22-2011, 08:13 PM   #2
Lamplighter
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Quote:
Originally Posted by classicman View Post
If one was ever fortunate enough to make a million dollars a year in income,
one should willingly give back $450,000 of it to "the government"
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Edward Filene of Boston's Filene's Department Stores might have agreed with you.
He is supposed to have said:

"Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me ?
I took all of it from them."

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