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• A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

  Russell B. Long

  Guy, Liberty, Reform

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• In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich are finding more tax loopholes to expect; so when are the people going to basically roll up their sleeves and say, we've had enough, we're going to recapture Congress.

  Ralph Nader

  Islands, America, People

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I want to close the online loophole and the gun show loophole.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Want, Online

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

  Barack Obama

  Special, Taxes, Interest

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

  David Gerrold

  Kindness, Philosophy, Commitment

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• There is one—how would you put it—loophole.” “Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings.

  Nalini Singh

  Wings, Giants, Caverns

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.252, Penguin

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• There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. When He says, "Come, Follow Me" (Luke 18:22), He means that He knows where the quicksand is and where the thorns are and the best way to handle the slippery slope near the summit of our personal mountains. He knows it all, and He knows the way. He is the way.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Fall, Mean, Men

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• But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Grief, Joy, Soul

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina”, p.932, Xist Publishing

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• Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.

  Bill Watterson

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Book, Self

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• When I look at what Donald trump have proposed, you have what is called now the Trump loophole, because it would so advantage you and the business you do.

  Donald Trump

  Looks, Advantage, Trump

  Source: time.com

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• As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

  Michael Emerson

  Gun, May, North Carolina

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• Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Vampire, Predator

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• The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.

  John Hoeven

  Keys, Growth, Reform

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• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

  Aldo Leopold

  Tree, Example, Needs

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

  Elton Gallegly

  Boards, Needs, Use

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• What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, People, Wrecks

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.

  Anthea Turner

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you have a loophole such that these guys are putting their profits, multi-billion dollar profitable corporations putting billions of dollars into the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and other tax havens.

  Bernie Sanders

  Islands, Guy, Boeing

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're going to do? We're going to end that loophole. They are going to pay their fair share of taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Zero, Boeing, Pay

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.

  Joe Biden

  Trying, President, Culture

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.

  Lindsey Graham

  People, Giving, Debt

  "Sen. Graham on security of our nation's capital, 2016 plans; Sen. Sanders ready to challenge Hillary Clinton?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2015.

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• As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

  Steven Rattner

  Differences, Done, Interest

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• Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share.

  David Plouffe

  Believe, America, Order

  "David Plouffe Defends Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan; Sen. Lindsey Graham on Foreign Policy Challenges". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

  Jackie Vernon

  Father, Trying, Three

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