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Also, I want to reduce the capital gains tax from its current level of up to 40% to a flat 15%. This would free investment capital and result in increased productivity and a decline in unemployment… Japan and Germany, for instance, have virtually no capital gains tax at all, and they have two of the strongest economies in the Western world.

— Howard Jarvis I’m Mad As Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and its Leader (1979)

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I didn’t think Communists should be allowed to hold office for the same reason that I don’t think you should give Al Capone the key to your safe-deposit box.

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Tax shelters are a coffin for money.

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The people who wrote the constitution ... didn't say life, liberty and welfare or life, liberty and food stamps.

I guess nobody chose me to lead the parade. I guess I chose myself. If I hadn't done it, I don't think anybody else in California would have done it. Nobody.

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The most important thing in this country is not the school system, nor the police department nor the fire department. The right to have property in this country, the right to have a home in this country, that’s important.

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