Happy TAX day

[Azat]

Just think. Now you have about 2 more months to work for the government to pay off your taxes for 2002.

[Azat]

TAX facts

-Last year, only one in five calls to the IRS customer hot line got through (GAO)

-Half of all errors on paper 1040 forms are the result of IRS employees inputting incorrect numbers (Portman-Kerry Commission).

-The IRS publishes 480 tax forms and 280 forms to explain the 480 forms. The IRS sends out 8 million pages of forms and instructions each year, enough to circle the earth 28 times (Portman-Kerry Commission).

-The tax code is 1 million words and 5,000 pages (House Ways and means Committee, 3/4/97). The regulations interpreting the code add an additional 12,000 pages. (Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, 4/97). Houston Chronicle, 4/17/97

-In 1994 the top 1 percent of income earners bore 28.8 percent of the U.S. income tax burden, up from 17.9 percent in 1981.

-The top 10 percent of income earners paid 58.2 percent of income taxes, up from 48.2 percent in 1981.

-The bottom 75 percent of households paid 20.5 percent of total income taxes, down from 27.9 percent in 1981.

-The bottom half of all income earners paid only 4.8 percent of all income taxes, down from 7.4 percent in 1981.

 

TAX giggles

-For every tax problem there is a solution which is straightforward, uncomplicated and wrong.

-The trouble with the profession of income-tax inspectors is that 90% of its members give the rest a bad name.

-People who complain about paying their income tax can be divided into two types: men and women.

-What's the difference between an overzealous tax auditor and a rottweiler? A rottweiler eventually lets go!

-How can you tell when a tax auditor is trying to trap you into a confession? Answer: When his lips are moving.

-Why do sharks not attack tax auditors? Answer: Professional courtesy.

-Due to taxation, politicians find it increasingly difficult to reconcile their net incomes with their gross habits.

-To err is human - and to blame it on the Government is even more so.

-Death: to stop paying taxes suddenly.

-Where there's a will there's a tax shelter.

-Tax loopholes are like parking meters. As soon as you see one they're gone.

-A dollar saved is bound to be taxed.

-The ideal solution is for the Government to live within its means not yours.

-Some say that nobody should keep too much to themselves. The tax office is of the same opinion.

-What is the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? The jail walls.

-What's the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist only takes the skin.

-"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax!" (Albert Einstein)

-"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." (Plato)

-"There are two distinct classes of men... those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." (Thomas Paine)

-"The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul." (George Bernard Shaw)

-There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people." (Adam Smith)

-"But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." (Benjamin Franklin)

-"A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who doesn't have to take a civil service examination." (Ronald Reagan)

 

And a TAX joke

-A little boy, who wanted $100.00 very badly, prayed for two weeks but nothing happened. Then he decided to write GOD a letter requesting $100.00. When the postal authorities received the letter to GOD, U.S.A., they decided to send it to the President. The President was so impressed, touched, and amused that he instructed his secretary to send the boy $5.00. Mr. President thought that this would appear to be a lot of money to the little boy. The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 and immediately sat down to write a thank you note to GOD that read: "Dear God, Thank you very much for sending me the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Washington, D.C., and, as usual, those BASTARDS deducted $95.00.

[Hyeflyer]

HagaragIt is simple play both against each other and take all the both will give up .STAND ALONE.

[khodja]

The Old Republicans wanted to get the tax man out of your pocket.

 

The Old Democrats wanted the tax man in your pocket so they could play Robin Hood to house and feed the poor.

 

The New Republicans want to get the tax man somewhat out of your pocket, but definately want the tax man out of the major political benefactor's pockets, as long as there is enough $ left to buy war toys and fund religious organizations.

 

The new Democrats still want the tax man in your pocket, but are fighting to keep the hand of the government out of your personal life. They want the government out of your personal religious perceptions, outside of matters of your family and outside of your bedrooms. They don't want the government to tell women what to do with their bodies.

 

So, Azat, we have one party with it's hand in your pocket and the other trying to control most of your other life decisions.