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Government can't provide services without levies.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20031211
Author:Wright, Jim
Byline: Jim Wright
"Taxes," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, "are what we pay for civilized society."
We love the things that taxes buy: schools that educate our children; military power second to none; enough police and courts to protect us from thieves, murderers, dope dealers and drunk drivers; superhighways adequate to accommodate our big, modern family chariots; a sophisticated public infrastructure to facilitate our armada of commercial and private jets, eliminate our industrial and municipal waste, and keep our air and water clean; public research to develop cures for ...
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