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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

— Ari Fleischer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We spend more on cows than the poor.

— Gordon Brown

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

— Ralph Nader

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

— Pat Paulsen

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

— Henry Paulson

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

— Kit Bond

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

— Terence Fisher

A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!

— Munshi Premchand

I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.

— Robert J. Bentley

✗Opposing Perspectives

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

— Rita Mae Brown

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

— Edward Abbey