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  • This is already the most heavily tax-burdened citizens in America.

    CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009 2009

  • Stranger than fiction, he could have announced it any time before Sunday as Government strategy – to give hard-pressed, tax-burdened families a break.

    2007 Election Meanderings... Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • How about a computer drive, and get them from the community, rather than ask for MORE from the already tax-burdened homeowners.

    Kitsap Sun Stories 2010

  • Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the weekend that his economic philosophy is to "spread the wealth around" -- a comment that may only draw fire from riled-up John McCain supporters who have taken to calling Obama a "socialist" at the Republican's rallies.

    The Redhunter 2008

  • Does any one seriously believe that a powerful nation intent on peace -- the strongest power in the world, the friend of all mankind, ready to submit any international question to arbitration -- would be in danger of an unjust, lawless, causeless assault from the Christian nations of Europe, who have so much to lose and nothing to gain by war, and who have already, in their groaning, tax-burdened people, a sufficient reminder of the folly and criminality of war?

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4 1856

  • It is a proud thing to feel that we feed, not only the people of our own land, but many who would be starving, if it were not for us, in that tax-burdened country of yours. "

    In the Rocky Mountains A Tale of Adventure William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • It is a proud thing to feel that we feed, not only the people of our own land, but many who would be starving, if it were not for us, in that tax-burdened country of yours. "

    In the Rocky Mountains William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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