An E$pe¢ially Taxing Day!
Volume: Loud YIKE$!
I$$ue: Taxe$ Due MONDAY!!
Date: April 15, 2022
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”—Albert Einstein
An E$pe¢ially Taxing Day!
It help$ to know that even Al—who breezed through the math and phy$i¢$ of explaining THE UNIVER$E—$truggled with hi$ tax return$ every year!
Here are $ome ¢hu¢kle$ to $oothe frazzled nerve$ thi$ weekend a$ we roll up our $leeve$ and ro¢k the math in our own $mall univer$e$ of 1040$.
$oothe tho$e nerve$ with ¢hu¢kles
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”The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”—Will Rogers
“A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.”—Ann Landers
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.”—Bill Murray
“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.”—Mark Twain
“I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried—but they wanted cash.”—Anonymous
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”—Barry Goldwater
“Intaxication: The nice feeling you get when you receive a tax refund until you realize it was your own money in the first place.”—Anonymous
“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”—Arthur C. Clarke
“This too shall pass. It might pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass.”—Anonymous
“Income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”—Will Rogers
“Anyone who tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.”—Anonymous
“I’m so glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It’s really handy this parallelogram season.”—Anonymous
”Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to go shopping.”—Bo Derek
And if you need some tunes to put max pep in your tax prep, here’s this Beatles Blast from the Past…
“Let me tell you how it will be,
There’s one for you, nineteen for me.
’Cause I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat.
If you get too cold, I’ll tax your heat.
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.
’Cause I’m the Taxman,
Yeah, I’m the Taxman.”
—George Harrison, 1966
Here’$ hoping that everything i$ “10-4” on your 1040 and wi$hing you many happy return$!
Irene
www.$a$$yprimer.¢om