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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: frawin on April 17, 2009, 11:35:11 AM

Title: Churchill
Post by: frawin on April 17, 2009, 11:35:11 AM
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill
 
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: pam on April 17, 2009, 11:51:17 AM
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: Catwoman on April 17, 2009, 05:45:32 PM
Lady to Churchill...The baby looks just like you.
Churchill's response...Madam, all babies look like me.
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: Diane Amberg on April 17, 2009, 05:58:31 PM
Now what a character he was. Loved and hated all at the same time.
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: Catwoman on April 17, 2009, 06:41:29 PM
Aw, what's to hate??  A jolly great Englishman, stiff upper lip, what?
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: Diane Amberg on April 17, 2009, 06:42:43 PM
Oy! :laugh:
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: sixdogsmom on April 17, 2009, 06:56:44 PM
And his Mum was from where?  8)
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: Wilma on April 17, 2009, 06:58:34 PM
Do you need to ask or do you just want to see if anyone else knows?
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: sixdogsmom on April 17, 2009, 08:16:29 PM
Wilma, I do know where she was from, just checking some of the other history buffs?
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: pam on April 17, 2009, 08:23:24 PM
New York right?
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: frawin on April 17, 2009, 09:14:47 PM
Churchill's Mother was born in New York, New York
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: dnalexander on April 17, 2009, 09:31:28 PM
Alright I'll bite on this. Just to tease my Uncle Frank.  Quoting an Englishman on taxes?  Boston Tea Party, Revolutionary War. The fact that we pay less taxes than England does now. Churchill was a great man.  My Uncle Frank is a very smart man. My mom always told me I got my ornery streak from her side of the family.

Love you Uncle Frank, good to see you posting more than the oil report. Missed your political commentary.

David
Title: Re: Churchill
Post by: frawin on April 18, 2009, 06:29:21 AM
Love you to David, Obama, Pelosi and Reid will be sure that the English tax rate does not stay higher than ours.
Have a good day.
Uncle Frank