<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414661" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tax Avoidance Strategy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tonight the tide is in full flood.<br>The moon provides sufficient light.<br>For us to unload smuggled goods.<br>Which must be done before daylight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The excise men are fat too wise.<br>To brave the dangers of the night<br>To try and take us by surprise.<br>They much prefer the broad daylight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We risk our life and liberty.<br>Just as our forbears used to do.<br>Braving the perils of the sea<br>Importing luxuries for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although the government will try.<br>The will not stop free enterprise.<br>The people want what we supply.<br>And are prepared to close their eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To pack horses moving at night.<br>That's how we move our contraband.<br>All safely stored before daylight<br>In hiding places well in land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The excise men can poke and pry.<br>Ask questions to their hearts content.<br>But local customs still apply.<br>Nobody helps the government.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>We're local men and we are free.<br>The Magistrates are local too.<br>And they enjoy their French brandy.<br>Free from the taxes which are due.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So raise your glass and drink a toast.<br>To honest Cornish sailor men.<br>Who land their cargoes on the coast.<br>Then fill your empty glass again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And curse the men in parliament.<br>Who pass laws which they can't enforce.<br>Against our will without consent.<br>No free man will ever endorse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where there's demand there'll be supply.<br>That is a universal law.<br>With which all traders must comply.<br>This law will last for evermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It always has and always will.<br>A law no government can change<br>By passing yet another bill.<br>In their attempts to re arrange.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What taxes should be paid by those.<br>Importing goods from overseas.<br>They have to try I must suppose<br>Which does not mean that I agree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=414661" data-title="Tax Avoidance Strategy de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Tonight the tide is in full flood. The moon provides sufficient light. For us to unload smuggled goods. Which must be done before daylight. The excise men are fat too wise. To brave the dangers of the night To try and take us by surprise. They mu..."></div> </div> </div>

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