Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for April 15, 2022

No panhandling…..

The IRS. Known for sucking blood out of a stone and licking off the sweat

Inflation, income taxes, real estate and chitty bond yields are killing the elderly’s savings. Only elderly winners are the insider stock trading politicians.

Unless you are a billionaire and can shelter your wealth in offshore sanctuaries then the IRS takes nothing from you!

Yup.

Best income tax gag I’ve seen this morning…

I’ve said it before: the IRS is a service in the same way a bull ‘services’ a cow.

On the Third Day He rose from the tomb. On the fourth day He was notified that death is no excuse for not filing.

The Eternal Revenue Service

Henny Youngman, 1968

The difference between the tax collector and the taxidermist is that the taxidermists leaves the hide (Mortimer Kaplan, former head of the IRS)

Death and taxes are inevitable, but you don’t have to die every year.

Money pooled in noticeable places — such as IRAs — becomes a politician attractant, with concomitant usurpation. Remember the Social Security pool? It attracted the attention of Lyndon Johnson, who decided the Federal government needed that money to run on.

oh, puhleeze. The US has some of the lowest tax rates in the world. Especially if you’re rich.

About $1 trillion in taxes goes uncollected every year. The U S debt is about 30 trillion, the math isn’t hard.