41.   Two-thirds of all the capital gains taxes the federal government collects each year come from the wealthiest one percent of taxpayers.

42.   Under the single-payer system, the government collects health care premiums and reimburses medical providers for costs incurred by patients.

43.   When more people are working, the government collects more in taxes.

44.   Wolff estimates that the federal government could collect perhaps three times as much in estate taxes if it could eliminate ways to avoid them.

45.   Yulia Timoshenko, until recently the energy minister, cleaned up the corrupt energy sector, allowing the government to collect taxes there for the first time.

46.   Our federal government collects a fifth of all our national wealth each year and controls almost half of it.

47.   Peres also proposed that Israel speed up payments to the Palestinians from income and import taxes the government collects from Palestinians who work or conduct business in Israel.

48.   A large share of business transactions and assets go unreported, tax enforcement is poor, and the government collects only a fraction of taxes it is owed.

49.   A trade battle is shaping up over a law that lets American companies pocket tens of millions of dollars in fines that the government collects from foreign competitors.

50.   Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Bellows filed documents last week outlining evidence the government has collected against Hanssen.