Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City
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“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 424, (1907, 12 February)
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