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All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.