<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384975" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Final Tax</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:<br>'What can we tax that is not paying?<br>We’re taxing every blessed thing—<br>Here’s what our people are defraying:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tariff tax, income tax,<br>Tax on retail sales,<br>Club tax, school tax,<br>Tax on beers and ales,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'City tax, county tax,<br>Tax on obligations,<br>War tax. wine tax,<br>Tax on corporations,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Brewer tax, sewer tax,<br>Tax on motor cars,<br>Bond tax, stock tax,<br>Tax on liquor bars,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Bridge tax, check tax,<br>Tax on drugs and pills,<br>Gas tax, ticket tax,<br>Tax on gifts in wills,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Poll tax, dog tax,<br>Tax on money loaned,<br>State tax, road tax,<br>Tax on all things owned,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Stamp tax, land tax,<br>Tax on wedding ring,<br>High tax, low tax,<br>Tax on everything!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:<br>'That is the list, a pretty bevy;<br>No thing or act that is untaxed;<br>There’s nothing more on which to levy.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Statesman Z to Statesman A:<br>'The deficit each moment waxes;<br>This is no time for us to fail—<br>We will decree a tax on taxes.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ellis+Parker+Butler">Ellis Parker Butler</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384975" data-title="The Final Tax de Ellis Parker Butler" data-description="Said Statesman A to Statesman Z: 'What can we tax that is not paying? We’re taxing every blessed thing— Here’s what our people are defraying: 'Tariff tax, income tax, Tax on retail sales, Club tax, school tax, Tax on beers and ales, 'City ..."></div> </div> </div>

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