What Happened?
At first I thought this was funny...then I realized the awful truth of
it.
Be sure to read all the way to the end!

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries, then
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers,
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.

Put these words
upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove me
to my doom..."

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax,
Fuel permit tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Interest expense
Inventory tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road usage taxes
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone federal excise tax
Telephone federal universal service fee tax
Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax
Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax
Telephone state and local tax
Telephone usage charge tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago,
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class
in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened?
And I still have to "press 1" for English

fish head 5 i love your post. it's a real reminder of our times. thanks bud for the awesome post. i'm mailing this one to the White House.

Great point on the "no national debt" and the "big middle class..." Very nice topic/post/comments!

We had a huge middle class a hundred years ago because we still had a big chunk of the population involved in agriculture. Taxes to pay for education were minimal because most people had far less than a high school education.
We didn't have road taxes, gas taxes, or recreational vehicle taxes because none of those things existed.

I think the choice has been made by 98% of Americans that getting up at 430 AM to milk the cows sucks ass; that even a mediocre high school education is better than a third grade education; and I prefer truck exhaust to the smell that comes out of a horses ass.

It may not seem like progress to some, but I much prefer to pay the taxes than suffer the alternative.

Compared to the ratio of Taxes vs Income paid by the Feudal era Working Classes, we're getting off easy.

Imagine paying 75% to 90% taxes...And it technically wasn't even thier own property and livestock.

Kinda reminds me of having to pay royalties just for saying "I'm Lovin' it!"

I have driven a horse pulling a buck rake during haying and they say a farting horse is a working horse. I do know that the smell of a horses ass won't kill you anywhere near as fast the the truck's exhaust.
And then the political horses asses are absolutly deadly. One of the byproducts of legislation. Death and taxes.

It does look like it may cause brain damage though. Just an observation.

I bet if milking cows paid well it would be a highly sought after job.

Stam, did you ever get milk in the cat's eye? I had a herd of them following me out to milk. I wished I would have gotten 2 bucks a milking.

KK I'll just ship my tax bill over to you, since you're so happy to pay them.

fhead5, how many udders did you stroke? Used to get up and help Uncle. He had 26 milkers. He could do 18 by the time I did 8 and a few cats too. lol Did wonders for your grip.
So did plucking directionally impaired stlhead buzzards.

It's the abuse thats hard to control. You hit the nail on the head.

Sard, seems to me there were 12 cows. I was just the helper too.

Aunty, get your mind out of the gutter :p :p

So that I may earn some of Aunty's respect, I'm a former farmer, too. High school FFA president. I had six dairy cows, hand milked morning and night, seven days a week, sold cream to Lewis/Pacific Dairymen's Assoc. as a teenager. Consquently had all too little time for staying out late and getting in as much trouble as I would have preferred. Exhibited animals at the County fairs in the summer. Those were fun times, sleeping in the hay lofts of the exhibition barns. I had a thing for the girls from the McMonagle farm out by Yelm, but their dad was mean as a Holstien bull, but fortunately not as big.

Yeah, talk about a grip. I think my forearms were twice as big as my biceps. Oh god, I'm visualizing Popeye here.

Well stated Vhawk

Ok you udder milkers out there. Did you also have a separator, Armstrong type? The milking was tolerable in my youth, cleaning the stalls and shoveling out the milking area were not so nice.
Cranking the separator was just damn hard work. We ran the separator and sold the whole milk, cream, churned butter and buttermilk as separate items at the local market. A 3 mile hike down the road to Goldendale, Wa. After the separator operation the thing had to be torn down and cleaned, the worst job of all.
But good old day cream, the stuff that did not pour, was wonderful. Had to use a spoon to put it on the oatmeal.,

Yeah, I used a separator. Would have been hard to sell cream otherwise. My stepdad rigged an electric motor to it, so I didn't have to hand turn it. Mighty thoughtful and atypical of him to make my life any easier.

I grew up thinking milk normally had lumps of cream in it. The homoginized stuff was weird until I got used to it. That whole milk was probably a great artery clogger, but I suppose we worked it off, so no problems. Probably be death for a desk jockey like I am now.

....and hard physical labor. That stuff running around in your arteries is fuel if burned. beaver dams if not.

Uncle ran a bunch of Jerseys. Didn't produce as much milk as the Holsteins. Lot higher butter fat content tho'. And they were smaller and required less fodder.