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We've already got a 2-cent tax on hamburgers. I'd have told them to try to find some private investors.

Anti-tax activist JOHN McCALEB of Little Rock, Ark., on the proposed penny-per-hamburger tax hike in the city to pay for the Clinton presidential library. City officials committed $15 million to buy a 26-acre site and prepare it, but didn't think much about how to pay for it."At the time," explained Mayor Jim Daley, "we were so caught up in the exhilaration of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we thought everyone else was, too." The tax was dropped after angry taxpayers raised a protest.

Hey, we've got to make money where we can.

JANICE ADAIR, director of the Alaska Division of Environmental Health, on the agency's decision to sell 2,000 samples of crude oil and other debris collected after the Exxon Valdez spill. The samples, which are no longer needed by the courts, will go for $5 each (plus shipping). The agency would have faced a $6,000 environmental-disposal fee; instead, officials will have all the samples taken off their hands and add $10,000 to their bottom line.

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