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Why! I actually would love a 3% income tax...
(I have an attached zero to it...By any means...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Be glad it's only one zero... 
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It's a double zero - one for the rate and one for the benefit... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wikipedia wrote: Income tax was first implemented in Great Britain by William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798 to pay for weapons and equipment in preparation for the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt's new graduated (progressive) income tax began at a levy of 2 old pence in the pound (1/120) on incomes over £60 (£5,641 as of 2015),[7] and increased up to a maximum of 2 shillings (10%) on incomes of over £200.
So Lincoln stole the idea...
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So Lincoln stole the idea. He was a politician after all! Why does that not surprise me? 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Wikipedia: The first known system of taxation was in Ancient Egypt around 3000–2800 BC in the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
And according to the Bible it was 20% of the mass production...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yes - but that's not income tax (probably because they didn't use money yet?). I think that's called a "tithe".
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Tithe, one of my favorite words. Every time I hear or read that word I picture a posh Englishman talking about mammaries and not taxes.
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 You have a very odd understanding of the way English nobs speak then (or a decidedly one track mind)!
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Work these days is regularily interfering with my responsibilities here on CP.
There you go:
I hear you, Greek! I prophesy a rethorical strategy! (9)
Let's see how fast this one will be cracked! 
Hint 1: What's up? Too challenging for you elephanting sunshines?
Hint 2: Eloquent, playful and seemingly harmless phrasing, yet devastating connotation!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 5-Aug-15 10:05am.
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Was the clue modified?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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super wrote: Was the clue modified?
Yes, but it's quite marginal.
I've changed it from "a form of rethoric" to "rethorical strategy",
which if find a much closer match than the first.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Sorry, that isn't it!
BTW, how did you arrive at that, was that a guesstimate?
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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A stab in the dark. On the moon. With a spoon.
I hear you in greek = akhou = account ?
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GRIEVANCE !!!?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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No, that's not it, sorry!
If you think that grievance is a rethorical strategy you've been reading to much Q&A! 
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Definite pathos applies when dealing with QA contributors. There's real suffering there.
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Narration
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Can't hear "you" for the life of me.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Just noticed that I've now reached my goal of being a "Master Debator".
As Finbarr Saunders[^] would say... fnarr fnarr...
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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But meanwhile you became addicted too...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Just noticed that I've now reached my goal of being a "Master Debator".
It took you you whole life so far to realise that?
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It seems quite a few of us are "Master Debators", myself included.
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